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).