Victoria’s 208 LGBTQ+ suicides to be outlined for the first time in new report

Exclusive: Coroner suspects undercount' as a decade of suicide data is released to the public

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More than 200 LGBTQ+ Victorians have died by suicide in the past decade, according to a first-of-its-kind analysis by the state's coroner.

In a report to be released on Friday, the coroner's court of Victoria identified 208 deaths by suicide - recorded between 2012 and 2021 - of people who are LGBTQ+.