This paper was interested in looking at how discrimination and victimization may contribute to suicidality in LGBTQ samples. To date, this has primarily been investigated with regards to direct discrimination/victimization. Less is known about how ambient discrimination/victimization may contribute to suicidality, with ambient discrimination referring to the experience of observing or being made aware of discrimination/victimization towards someone with a shared identity. Further, little is known about the mechanisms by which discrimination/victimization may come to be associated with suicidality. Our results supported that while both ambient and direct discrimination predicted suicidal ideation, only direct discrimination accounted for unique variance in the outcome. However, both ambient and direct discrimination contributed unique variance to psychological pain, which fully mediated their respective relationships to suicidal ideation. These results suggest that ambient discrimination/victimization may contribute unique variance to the suicide risk factor of psychological pain in LGBTQ samples, even relative to direct discrimination, and accordingly will be important to further investigate in future studies.

La Guía de Familia (The Spanish Family Guide) is a project built upon a previously developed guide called It’s Time to Talk About It: A Family Guide for Youth Suicide Prevention (Grylewicz et al., 2014) to create a culturally sensitive Guia de Familia for the Latinx community. We aimed to identify culturally specific information (e.g., warning signs, risk and protective factors, and barriers to treatment) relevant to suicide prevention for Latinx American families. Additionally, we aimed to develop a research-informed, culturally relevant guide to educate Latinx American youth and their families on the existence, and importance, of suicide prevention information and resources. This project employed a qualitative community-based participatory research design to expand upon the original suicide prevention family guide to meet the Florida Latinx community’s unique needs. The research team partnered with a local Latinx community organization whose members formed the study’s Community Board.