On InfoWars last week, host and vitamin-pusher Alex Jones had an interesting theory about why rates of suicide are higher for sexual minorities than for other groups. Instead of blaming, I dunno, society, which for most of modern history has treated gay people like the skid marks on your underoos, Jones blames... gay people.

A transcript, compliments of Media Matters:

The gay community—which, I don't hate anybody, on average diverse group of people—but, on average, they have the highest level of suicide globally of any group. And it's not because folks are being mean to them. It's because that community is being mean to them, and I've seen the studies. I've witnessed it for myself. I've had friends, family, neighbors that are gay. You go to their party, they're being meaner than hell to each other. I mean it's—a lot of gay people are really mean. And let's not lie about that, and let's not lie about how they treat each other. And that lesbians have the highest level of abusing each other, and I'm not — I don't hate women that like women. The whole point is they don't want to discuss why they have the highest rates of drug use, suicide.

Never thought I'd say this, but Alex Jones has a point. Queer people actually do attempt suicide more often than straight people, and lesbians and bisexual women actually do report higher levels of intimate partner violence than any other demographic. (You try sharing a one-bathroom apartment with your girlfriend, your girlfriend's ex, your girlfriend's ex's new girlfriend, six hairless cats, four diva cups, and a monthly potluck where everyone brings the same goddamn raw kale salad.) As for whether gay folks are actually meaner to each other than anyone else? Seems a little unscientific to me, but watch this scene from a little-known documentary on lesbian life in Los Angeles and then decide.