An important study titled “Mental Health and Suicidality Among Racially/Ethnically Diverse Sexual Minority Youths,” published in the June 2014 issue of the American Journal of Public Health, shows that LGBT youth are much more likely than straight youth to attempt suicide. One of the study's big findings was that 22.8% of the LGBT youth attempted suicide in the year prior to being surveyed, as compared to only 6.6% of their straight counterparts. On top of this, over 8% of the LGBT youth's suicide attempts were serious (resulting in visits to the hospital), compared to 2% for heterosexual youth. Therefore, a large percentage of gay youth are suffering from very serious forms of mental illness. As I can testify, the very last place someone like that should end up is in the gay community; where promiscuity, bizarre forms of sex, and drug and alcohol abuse are rampant. For, the gay world is not a peaceful oasis in which to heal from the traumas of childhood; in fact, there – they will only become worse. And, tragically this is evident in the high number of high-school age gay children who have multiple sex partners while refusing to use condoms. This results in extraordinarily high levels of HIV infection among young gay men.
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