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Bias agast gay men specifilly jumped 45% durg that same time perd. But the once-actured relatnship also unrsr a generatnal divi about perceptns of LGBTQ+ people that are hard to overe, and leave many young people unhoed each year wh limed available we leave the hoe, Ramsey chuckl, acknowledgg that his grandfather is set his ways and nothg would probably change his md about feelg that beg gay is wrong. 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).

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