List of suicides of LGBTQ people

This is a list of LGBTQ people whose suicides were deemed sufficiently notable to be reported by the media.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

Name	Lifetime	Age	Location	Sexual orientation/ gender identity
Anannyah	1993 – 20 July 2021	28	Kerala, India	Trans woman[1]
Justin Aaberg	1995 – 9 July 2010	15	Minnesota, US	Gay[2]
Leelah Alcorn	15 November 1997 – 28 December 2014	17	Kings Mills, Ohio, US	Trans girl[3]
Arsen	2005 – 20 October 2022	17	Yerevan, Armenia	Gay[4]
Dante Austin	1992 – 9 June 2019	27	Philadelphia, US	Gay[5]
Zenon Bartlett	2000 – 6 September 2016	16	Winchester, England	Gay[6]
Cody J. Barker	1993 – 13 September 2010	17	Wisconsin, US	Gay[7]
Jadin Bell	4 June 1997 – 3 February 2013	15	La Grande, Oregon, US	Gay[8]
Nex Benedict	2008 – 8 February 2024	16	Oklahoma, US	Transmasculine[9]
Alexander Betts Jr.	1997 – July 2013	16	Des Moines, Iowa, US	Gay[10]
Bhavesh	1996 – 21 January 2021	25	Surat, India	Gay[11]
Boyd	1964 – 1 February 1989	25	Washington, D.C., US	Gay[12]
Eric James Borges	1993 – 13 January 2012	19	California, US	Gay[13]
Blake Brockington	15 May 1996 – 23 March 2015	18	Charlotte, North Carolina, US	Trans man[14]
Asher Brown	1997 – 21 September 2010	13	Houston, US	Gay[15]
David Buckel	June 13, 1957 – April 14, 2018	60	Batavia, New York, US	Gay[16]
Loren Cameron	13 March 1959 – 18 November 2022	63	California, US	Trans man[17]
Eylül Cansın	1992 – 5 January 2015	23–24	Istanbul, Turkey	Trans woman[18]
Dora Carrington	29 March 1893 – 11 March 1932	38	Ham, Wiltshire, England	Bisexual[19][20] or lesbian[21]
Fred Caruso	1975 – 15 June 2016	41	Las Vegas, US	Gay[22]
Raymond Chase	1991 – 2 October 2010	19	Rhode Island, US	Gay[23]
Alana Chen	1995 – 9 December 2019	24	Colorado, US	Lesbian[24]
Leslie Cheung	12 September 1956 – 1 April 2003	46	Hong Kong	Bisexual[25]
Tyler Clementi	19 December 1991 – 10 September 2010	18	Piscataway, New Jersey, US	Gay[26]
Simon Cremen	6 June 2021		Grimsby, England	Gay[27]
Stephen Crohn	1947 – 24 August 2013	66	New York City, US	Gay[28]
Andrew Cunanan	31 August 1969 – 23 July 1997	27	Miami Beach, Florida, US	Gay[29]
Brad Davis	6 November 1949 – 8 September 1991	41	Los Angeles, California, US	Bisexual[30]
Armanih Lewis-Daniel	1997 – 17 March 2021	24	London, England	Trans woman[31]
Michał Demski	1990 – 26 June 2020	30	Warsaw, Poland	Gay[32]
Denice Denton	27 August 1959 – 24 June 2006	46	Santa Cruz, California, US	Lesbian[33]
Stockton Deussen	1999 – 27 June 2016	17	Utah, US	Gay[34]
Thomas M. Disch	2 February 1940 – 4 July 2008	68	New York, New York, US	Gay[35]
Daphne Dorman	1975 – 11 October 2019	44	San Francisco, US	Trans woman[36][37]
Nova Dunn	2009 – 17 May 2023	14	Manchester, New Hampshire, US	Transgender[38]
Simon Dunn	27 July 1987 – 21 January 2023	35	Sydney, Australia	Gay[39]
Bryan Michael Egnew	1971 – 10 September 2011	40	Utah, US	Gay[40]
Bernardo Elbaz	1984 – 10 November 2015	31	Brasília, Brazil	Gay[41]
Jack Ellis	1995 – March 2014	19	Weston-super-Mare, England	Gay[42]
Mpho Falithenjwa	2008 – 29 June 2022	14	Johannesburg, South Africa	Gay[43]
Justin Fashanu	19 February 1961 – 2 May 1998	37	Norfolk, England	Gay[44]
Harry Fisher	1988 – 12 February 2016	28	Utah, US	Gay[45]
Avril Mabchour [fr]	2003 – 18 December 2020	17	Lille, France	Transgender[46]
Elias Fritchley	2009 – 28 November 2021	12	Shelbyville, Tennessee, US	Gay[47]
Wilson Gavin	1999 – 12 January 2020	21	Brisbane, Australia	Gay[48]
William Toby Green	1997 – 12 December 2021	26	Cardiff, Wales	Gay[49]
Robert "Bobby" Griffith	24 June 1963 – 27 August 1983	20	Portland, Oregon, US	Gay[50]
Ren Hang	30 March 1987 – 24 February 2017	29	Changchun, China	Gay or Bisexual[51]
Riley Hadley	2007 – 16 October 2019	12	Exeter, England	Gay[52]
Ash Haffner	1998 – 26 February 2015	16	Charlotte, North Carolina, US	Transgender[53]
Corei Hall	2009 – 12 October 2023	14	London, England	Trans boy[54]
Kenneth Halliwell	1926 – 9 August 1967	41	London, England	Gay[55]
Anjana Hareesh	1999 – 12 May 2020	21	Kerala, India	Bisexual[56]
Zach Harrington	1991 – 10 October 2010	19	Norman, Oklahoma, US	Gay[57]
Sarah Hegazi	1989 – 14 June 2020	30	Toronto, Ontario, Canada	Lesbian[58]
Jaheem Herrera	1998 – 16 April 2009	11	Atlanta, US	Gay[59]
Quentin Hubbard	6 Jan 1954 – 12 November 1976	22	US	Gay[60][61]
Jamie Hubley	1996 – 14 October 2011	15	Ottawa, Canada	Gay[62]
Rebwar Ibrahimi	2002 – 8 February 2022	20	Marivan, Iran	Trans woman[63]
William Inge	3 May 1913 – 10 June 1973	60	New York, New York, US	Gay[64]
Roger Irons	1987 – 2 August 2008	21	Cornwall, England	Gay[65]
Joseph Jefferson	1984 – 25 October 2010	26	New York, US	Gay[66]
Jay Jones	1995 – 11 May 2012	17	Minnesota, US	Gay[67]
Onyx John	2010 – 16 July 2023	13	Queensland, Australia	Trans boy[68]
Felis Joy	2006 – 11 April 2022	16	Chișinău, Moldova	Trans girl[69]
Ayden Keenan-Olson	1999 – 14 March 2013	14	Essex, England	Gay[70]
Zachary Kirchner	2006 – 20 April 2021	15	York County, Pennsylvania, US	Gay[71]
Adam Kizer	1999 – 26 May 2015	16	Sonoma Valley, US	Bisexual[72]
Eden Knight	c. 2000– 12 March 2023	23	Saudi Arabia	Trans woman[73]
Lizzie Lowe	2004 – 23 September 2018	14	Didsbury, England	Lesbian[74]
Lucas Vermard-Claude	2010 – 07 January 2023	13	Vosges, France	Gay[75]
Billy Lucas	1995 – 9 September 2010	15	Indiana, US	Gay[76]
Lance Lundsten	1993 – 19 January 2011	18	Minnesota, US	Gay[77]
Zander Nicholas Mahaffey	2000 – 15 February 2015	15	Austell, Georgia, US	Trans boy[78]
Nazim Mahmood	1980 – 30 July 2014	34	London, England	Gay[79]
Michael Maynes	1984 – 1 November 2014	30	Victoria (Australia), Australia	Gay[80]
Mikayla Miller	2005 – 18 April 2021	16	Massachusetts, US	Lesbian[81]
Sherin Celin Mathew	1996 – 17 May 2022	26	Kochi, India	Trans woman[82]
Henry Stuart Matis	2 March 1967 – 25 February 2000	32	Los Altos, California, US	Gay[83]
F. O. Matthiessen	19 February 1902 – 1 April 1950	48	Kittery, Maine, US	Gay[84]
Milo Mazurkiewicz	27 January 1995 – 6 May 2019	24	Warsaw, Poland	Non-binary[85]
Alexander McQueen	17 March 1969 – 11 February 2010	40	London, England	Gay[86]
Lucy Meadows	1981 – 19 March 2013	32	Accrington, England	Trans woman[87]
Tiro Moalusi	2007 – 16 August 2022	15	Gauteng, South Africa	Gay[88]
Eric Mohat	1990 – 29 March 2007	17	Ohio, US	Gay[89]
Jamel Myles	2009 – 21 August 2018	9	Denver, US	Gay[90]
Praveen Nath	4 May 2023		Kerala, India	Trans man[91]
Alfredo Ormando	15 December 1958 – 23 January 1998	39	Vatican City	Gay[92]
Pranshu	1997 – 21 November 2023	16	Ujjain, India	Queer[93]
Josh Pacheco	24 October 1995 – 27 November 2012	17	Michigan, US	Gay[94]
Tommy Page	24 May 1967 – 3 March 2017	46	Glen Ridge, New Jersey, US	Gay or Bisexual[95]
Phillip Parker	1998 – 23 January 2012	14	Tennessee, US	Gay[96]
Lincoln Parkin	1994 – 6 April 2016	22	Utah, US	Gay[97]
Avinshu Patel	2000 – 2 July 2019	19	Mumbai, India	Gay[98]
Aniket Patil	1994 – 27 June 2019	25	Mumbai, India	Gay[99]
Arthur Pelham-Clinton	23 June 1840 – 18 June 1870	29	London, England	Gay or Bisexual[100]
Mike Penner	10 October 1957 – 27 November 2009	52	Los Angeles, California, US	Transsexual[101]
Tristan Peterson	2005 – 3 December 2017	12	New Jersey, US	Gay[102]
Shailesh Raval	1988 – 11 October 2009	21	Ahmedabad, India	Gay[103]
Jack Reese	1995 – 23 April 2012	17	Utah, US	Gay[104]
Salvador Rios	2009 – 15 August 2023	14	San Diego, US	Gay[105]
Jamey Rodemeyer	21 March 1997 – 18 September 2011	14	Buffalo, New York, US	Bisexual[106]
Jacob Rogers	1993 – 7 December 2011	18	Tennessee, US	Gay[76]
Roshan	2003 – 19 March 2018	15	Riyadh, Saudi Arabia	Gay[107]
Neelotpol Sarkar	1991 – 12 February 2018	27	Bhopal, India	Gay[108]
İsa Şahmarlı	ca. 1993 – 22 January 2014	20	Baku, Azerbaijan	Gay[109]
Nigel Shelby	2004 – 18 April 2019	15	Alabama, US	Gay[110]
Hershel Siegel	1998 – 5 May 2023	25	Atlanta, US	Gay[111]
Channing Smith	2003 – 23 September 2019	16	Tennessee, US	Bisexual[112]
Michael Smith	1994 – 7 July 2016	22	Atlanta, US	Gay[113]
Mahesh Soni	1987 – 2 October 2011	24	Mumbai, India	Gay[114]
Alan Stafford	1961 – 29 January 2019	58	Portsmouth, England	Gay[115]
Jeff Thomas	1988 – 8 March 2023	35	Miami, US	Gay[116]
Tigran	2005 – 20 October 2022	17	Yerevan, Armenia	Gay[4]
Tonino	1975 – 9 July 2015	40	Foggia, Italy	Gay[117]
Alan Turing	23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954	41	Cheshire, England	Gay[118]
Tyrone Unsworth	16 August 2003 – 22 November 2016	13	Brisbane, Australia	Gay[119]
Cherry Valentine	30 November 1993 – 18 September 2022	28	Darlington, England	Genderfluid[120]
Ashok Valmik	1989 – 11 October 2009	20	Ahmedabad, India	Gay[103]
Carl Joseph Walker	1998 – 14 April 2009	11	Springfield, Massachusetts, US	Gay[121]
Seth Walsh	1997 – 19 September 2010	13	California, US	Gay[122]
Will X. Walters	1981 – 29 December 2016	35	San Diego, US	Gay[123]
Kevin Ward	1978 – 25 January 2022	44	Hyattsville, Maryland, US	Gay[124]
Cameron Warwick	2003 – 4 September 2019	16	Fareham, England	Gay[125]
Kenneth Weishuhn	27 May 1997 – 15 April 2012	14	Paullina, Iowa, US	Gay[126]
James Whale	22 July 1889 – 29 May 1957	67	Hollywood, California, US	Gay[127]
Jim Wheeler	1978–1997	19	Lebanon, Pennsylvania, US	Gay[128]
Robert White	1941 – 29 May 1985	44	Northern California, US	Gay[129]
Kyaw Zin Win	1993 – 27 June 2019	26	Yangon, Myanmar	Gay[130]
Kim Ji-who	1985– 7 October 2008	23	Seoul, South Korea	Gay[131]
Carlos Vigil	1996 – 19 July 2013	17	New Mexico, US	Gay[132]
Tyree Williams	31 October 2019		Camden, New Jersey, US	Gay[133]
Tobi Wong	10 June 1974 – 30 May 2010	35	New York, New York, US	Gay[134]
Gao Yan	2003 – 10 September 2022	19	Shandong, China	Gay[135]

See also

• Suicide among LGBTQ youth
• Suicide prevention
  • It Gets Better Project
  • Lesbian Gay Bi Trans Youth Line
  • The Trevor Project