Suicide Risk Behaviors Among Sexual Minority Adolescents in the United States, 2015

Sexual minority (lesbian, gay, bisexual, or questioning) adolescents are believed to have elevated suicide risks. 1 Studies supporting this claim, however, rarely use nationally representative samples, which is a major limitation given that stigma and prevention resources vary across communities and may influence suicide risk behaviors. 2 When nationally representative studies are available, they are not recent. 3 Moreover, studies have ignored the diversity among sexual minorities, assuming all share the same risks. 4 We estimated suicide risk behaviors of sexual minority adolescents using nationally representative data from 2015.