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...
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Do you intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, qutng, tersex, or ally? Rearch has shown that those who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, or qutng (LGBTQ+) have a 120% higher risk of experiencg some form of homelsns.
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Lbian and gay men also reported higher levels of timate partner vlence and sexual vlence when pared to heterosexual relatnships.
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What You Need To KnowRearch has shown that those who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, or qutng (LGBTQ+) have a 120% higher risk of experiencg some form of who intify as LGBTQ+ disproportnately experience homelsns. While this statistic is partially due to a “s olr pilgrimage of gay and transgenr youth” to San Francis, a cy known as a haven to queer folk seekg equaly, the numbers are bleak throughout the untry: Lambda Legal reports that anywhere om 20 to 40 percent of all homels youth the Uned Stat intify as LGBTQ.
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.