New Alternativ creas the self-sufficiency of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, and HIV+ homels youth by enablg them to transn out of the shelter system to stable adult liv.
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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. * new alternatives for lgbt homeless youth *
Many of them are forced out by homophobic relativ, or are fleeg om nservative muni where they don’t feel safe.
“That was at a time when there weren’t gay fai really, so people were very surprised to see a child there.
* new alternatives for lgbt homeless youth *
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.