Special issue

Raising Our Voice: perspectives on suicide in the LGBTI community

Andrew Blythe, Sally Morris, Michelle Mars

Abstract

Suicide and poor mental health outcomes remains the most significant health challenge for the LGBTI community in Australia. The authors seeks to make sense of the appalling suicide statistics by locating them beside a series of discontinuous, personal narratives. They have used a combined corporate and individual first-person ‘feminine’ voice to explore the personal impact of suicide, the context in which it occurs—through the associated determinants of health, differing perspectives of  community subgroups, and current methodologies of understanding—along with possible solutions for containment. Ultimately the authors claim a safe space where the issues that suicide and mental health present in the LGBTI community can be interrogated and challenged, through greater access to and connection with the individual narratives, and current health-based research seeking to make sense them.

Keywords

suicide; LGBTI; gender; sexuality; voice

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Australia License.

ISSN: 2202-2546

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