Do you accept that homosexuals commit suicide 6 times more than the general population?
Do you accept that by the law of statistical averages alone, one cannot attribute all homosexual suicide to external pressures? So, one of three questions needs to be addressed. Either, gay people kill themselves more becasue they are teased more, or maybe it has nothing at all to do with being homosexual, and they are as depressed as everyone else, and commit suicide for the same reasons as everyone else in the general population does? Or, they commit suicide because they cannot feel comfortable in their own skin, something feels wrong to them?
So the question to a potential research study would be. How many do what, because of which reason? Is it all external, is it all simply a matter of being human, or is it all a matter of internal reconcilliation? Maybe it's a combination of all three? Either way, something is causing them to suffer more than the general population in terms of suicide deaths.
Tim-