A pair of studies released within the past week indicate that gay, lesbian, and bisexual adults have an elevated risk of suicidality in almost every age and racial category over their heterosexual peers, and that gay and bisexual men who move to a country more accepting of LGBTQ civil rights experience a lower risk of suicide and depression.
The first study, "Suicidality Among Sexual Minority Adults: Gender, Age, and Race/Ethnicity Differences," was published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine November 8.
It examined some 191,954 responses to the 2015-2019 National Surveys on Drug Use and Health to "examine the differences between lesbian, gay, and bisexual and heterosexual adults for each outcome, once by gender and age