Table 1.

Priority actions for suicide prevention for sexual and gender minority adults (SGMA)

Priority area	Recommendations
1. Make society safer for sexual and gender minority adults	1. Support/build SGM-safe settings for adults
	2. Develop media guidelines on SGM-affirming reporting
	3. Reduce discrimination that exists within SGMA communities
	4. Respond to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s Calls to Action
2. Decrease barriers to mental health services	5. Increase the availability of free/low-cost, high-quality, culturally safe SGMA-affirming services
	6. Reduce wait times for existing free/low-cost SGMA-affirming services
	7. Clarify referral pathways for SGMA with suicidality
	8. Create SGMA-affirming practices and clinical spaces
	9. Explore new technologies to provide SGMA-affirming therapies to rural/remote SGMA
3. Support community-based interventions	10. Increase opportunities for SGMA to participate in social groups
	11. Provide suicide awareness training to existing SGMA social groups
	12. Create SGMA-specific suicide support groups
	13. Create a community suicide prevention grant program to sustain and scale interventions
4. Increase suicide knowledge and reduce suicide stigma	14. Provide suicide prevention training to SGMA
	15. Develop suicide literacy and suicide stigma campaigns
5. Expand the knowledge base on SGMA suicide	16. Identify SGMA-specific risk factors
	17. Explore the perspectives of under-researched SGMA groups and the connections between intersecting social identities and risk of suicide
	18. Monitor trends in SGMA suicide as a means to evaluating tailored interventions
	19. Increase the understanding of the lived experience of SGMA affected by suicide through qualitative research
	20. Develop knowledge using destigmatizing and empowering research approaches such as art-based and community-based methods