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DEATH BY DENIAL: STUDIES OF SUICIDE IN GAY AND LESBIAN TEENAGERS
By Gary Remafedi
Boston: Alyson, 1994. 205 pp. $9.95 (paper).
Educators, psychologists, sociologists, and human service and medical professionals have heightened their concern for and increased their research efforts into adolescent suicide. Their increased interest is due in part to the dramatic rise in suicide rates among U.S. adolescents over the past thirty-five years, and because suicide is now the third leading cause of death among adolescents in the United States (p. 7). Even more alarming, however, is that epidemiological evidence reveals that the incidence of suicide attempts among gay, lesbian, and bisexual youth is much higher than it is among heterosexual youth. Despite this disparity among the suicide attempt rates, research specific to gay, lesbian, and bisexual adolescent suicide is very limited.
Death by Denial: Studies of Suicide in Gay and Lesbian Teenagers offers an antidote to the dearth of research in this area by bringing together...