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GAY AND TRANSGENR YOUTH HOMELSNS BY THE NUMBERS
New Alternativ is a rource center dited to the re and well-beg of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, and HIV+ homels youth New York Cy. * lgbt homeless youth nyc *
NYC COMMISSION ON LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENDER AND QUESTIONING (LGBTQ) RUNAWAY AND HOMELESS YOUTH. Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr Youth: An Epimic of Homelsns Natnal Gay and Lbian Task Force (January 2007). DonateGet HelpTransformg LivOur MissnThe missn of the Ali Forney Center is to protect homels Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Qutng youths om the harms of homelsns and empower them wh the tools need to be pennt.
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.
46) pared to gay/lbian youth. However, rearch om the Fay Acceptance Project shows that many parents reject their child’s LGBTQ inty bee they fear the homophobia and transphobia their child may experience society (Substance Abe and Mental Health Servic Admistratn, 2014). Unlike other eply entrenched social problems such as racism, homophobia, biphobia, or transphobia, homelsns has a ncrete, evince-based solutn: hog.