Lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer/qutng (LGBTQ) youth are 120% more likely to be homels than cisgenr and heterosexual youth, yet current feral polici are sufficient and exclu LGBTQ youth. Youth homels shelters are aquately equipped to serve LGBTQ homels youth d …
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GAY AND TRANSGENR YOUTH HOMELSNS BY THE NUMBERS
While the challeng of intifyg and ntactg youth experiencg homelsns make difficult to tablish the exact prevalence of LGBTQ youth homelsns, is timated that lbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) youth make up 7-9% of the general populatn (Wilson, Cooper, Kastanis, & Nezhad, 2014) but 29% of youth experiencg homelsns (Choi et al., 2015). 1 It is important to note that due to a failure to llect nuanced sexual orientatn and genr inty data many large-sle surveys, much of the prev rearch on LGBTQ youth actually only vers those who are lbian, gay, or bisexual. In this report, fdgs that only apply to lbian, gay, or bisexual youth will be noted wh the acronym LGB and fdgs which apply to lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, or qutng youth will be noted wh acronym LGBTQ.