Thank you for writing this article and for reminding folks that the LGBTQ community isn't just in a bubble in the middle of Greenwich Village or Chelsea, NYC. My only wish for the article is for citations of the statistics you've provided. Otherwise, great stuff!

Here lately, I have been operating in my own little world just thinking about me me me, and my current situation. I was unaware of the alarming rates of suicide among the LGBTQ community until I read your article "Dying for Acceptance". However, as I read this story, my mind was flooded back to my own childhood memories of being teased by fellow classmates because I was fat and had dark skin. I didn't contemplate suicide, and I couldn't control what my classmates said or thought about me, but I could control what I put in my mouth and I stuffed myself with unhealthy foods to push down the pain (an unconscious suicide I suppose). Way back then, I was the "brunt" of everybody's joke. When one is operating in "It's all about 'Me' and my own world", we move to quickly to pluck each other off as flawed forgetting about the beam in our own eye(s). Thank you John for making me aware of the growing rates of suicide among the LGBTQ community. And lastly, thank you for embracing me through this article that despite what others said, say or think I was/am fearfully and wonderfully made. Continue to do justice in God's service. Andrea (Ann)