Black sexual and gender minority (SGM) youth demonstrate higher rates of suicidal ideation and behavior than White SGM youth and Black cisgender heterosexual youth. However, limited research has examined racial, sexual, and gender identities as they co-occur and intersect to result in experiences producing suicide risk and protection among Black SGM youth. Further, suicide research often lacks intercategorical comparisons needed to understand suicide risk and protection across subgroups of Black SGM youth, limited research has examined Black SGM-specific protective factors as moderators of suicide risk, and most research has relied on single method inquiries that limit understanding of the constellation of factors associated with suicide risk among Black SGM youth over time and across a week.

We propose to conduct a multi-level, multi-component mixed-methods, longitudinal study to examine how intersectional minority stress and Black SGM-specific protective factors affect active suicide ideation over time, day-to-day, and within specific contexts within and between populations of Black SGM youth.