A Northwestern University researcher just published the first longitudinal study on LGBT youth and suicide. It found that victims of bullying were two and a half times more likely to attempt suicide or hurt themselves. It also showed that even when the kids had supportive figures in their lives, harassment still correlated strongly with suicidal thoughts.
“The vast majority of LGBT youth in our sample had experienced some kind of victimization,” says Dr. Brian Mustanski, the lead author and director of the IMPACT LGBT Health and Development Program. “People had spit on them or yelled at them, threatened or physically attacked them.”
By the time the suicides of September 2010 arrived, the correlation between gay bullying and self-harm was becoming too obvious to ignore.
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