SUICIDALITY
PROBLEMS OF GAY
AND BISEXUAL MALES Bibliography
Final edited copy, Dec.
1996. Replaces Aug. 16, 1996 copy located at this website. NOTE:
Published as "Chapter 12" in C. Bagley & R. Ramsay, Eds. (1997) Suicidal
Behaviours in adolescent and adults: taxonomy, understanding and prevention.
Brookfield, Vermont: Avebury. A shorter version of this paper was published
as Suicidal Behaviors in Homosexual and Bisexual Males in
Crisis, The International Journal of Suicide and Crisis Studies, Vol. 18(1),
1997, pp. 24-34 (PubMed "abstract"
link with a document delivery service. Abstract also available on a CRISIS
webpage.). The results of this study, combined with the demographic
data based on sexual orientation, the results of another
major demographic study also published in 1998, and additional
information have been used to produce a monumentally important CAVEAT
ALERT! See ADDENDUM.
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SUICIDALITY PROBLEMS OF GAY AND BISEXUAL
MALES: EVIDENCE FROM A RANDOM COMMUNITY SURVEY OF 750 MEN AGED 18 TO 27
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