“Suicide of gay/bi men surpasses HIV as the leading cause of death” This pride month I want to acknowledge the barriers we still have to face and overcome. I also want to encourage all my gay/bi/trans/queer brothers to take care of themselves and each other ❤️

Horseshit article mongering tremendously poorly executed research filling space with a photoshoot.

Look at the graph, a very minor increase in suicidality amongst the population over 20 years does not show a drastic rise. HIV dropped because medical science made transmission harder.

His "research" doesn't control for the fact that the general suicide rate amongst men (not just gay men, men in general) has increased, which is a result of growing poverty and inability to survive in an economy designed to screw the poor.

And I'm sorry, to automatically frame this as a "minority," issue then use a generic looking white boy as your star (photoshoot worthy) interviewee is just in poor taste.

As a scientist, it's shit like this that pisses me off: correlation does not imply causation; basic principles of data analysis are being ignored throughout this garbage.

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