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Gary Remafedi, MD, MPH
University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis

JAMA. 1999;282:1291-1292.

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The US government's Report of the Secretary's Task Force on Youth Suicide, which appeared in 1989, sparked a controversy that continues to the present day. In his chapter on gay and lesbian youth suicide, Gibson projected that "gay youth are 2 to 3 times more likely to attempt suicide than other young people. They may comprise up to 30% of completed youth suicides annually."¹ Some experts rejected the conclusions as being drawn from biased samples.² Considerable work since then has addressed the putative association between sexual orientation and suicide.

The problem of suicide first surfaced as an incidental finding in pioneering research on homosexuality that identified a high prevalence of such attempts among young men.³ Two of the earliest studies of gay youths revealed that as many as 1 in 3 had attempted suicide.^4-5 The next generation of research specifically studied suicidality and sexual orientation . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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