Introduction: queer youth suicide, vulnerability and unliveable lives -- Queer suicide representations in popular media -- Histories and genealogies of suicide research and sexuality -- It gets better? Online representations of hope, vulnerability and resilience -- Reconstitutions: identity, subjectivity and the dominant discourses of sexuality -- Tensions: suicide, sexual identity and shame -- Community: homonormativity, exclusion and relative misery -- Conclusion: towards liveable lives.