ABSTRACT
This chapter illustrates how men’s suicidality research can be enhanced through critical engagement with intersectionality. It presents an overview of men’s suicidality research, focusing on empirical gaps and theory-based shortcomings related to the conceptualization of masculinities. The chapter provides some reflections about moving the field of intersectionality forward in men’s suicidality research. It explains the suicide inequities of gay and bisexual men, identifies the social circumstances that produce and sustain these inequities, and explores the solutions that are grounded in the experience of suicidality among gay and bisexual men. Men’s narratives and photographs about their experiences of suicidality revealed societal and structural issues such as homophobic and biphobic violence, underemployment and unemployment, and barriers to appropriate mental health services. Intersectionality has been proposed as an important framework for the advancement of public health research. Intersectionality calls for an analytic framework that is multileveled and that takes into consideration the microlevel, mesolevel, and macrolevel.
