Young, Black, gay and homels, TyRon Jackson ed to thk he didn't matter. Now his work speaks for self - Los Angel Tim

Contents:

• 'THE INSPECTN' HIGHLIGHTS A GAY BLACK MARE'S EXPERIENCE UNR 'DON'T ASK, DON'T TELL'
• YOUNG, BLACK, GAY AND HOMELS, TYRON JACKSON ED TO THK HE DIDN’T MATTER. NOW HIS WORK SPEAKS FOR SELF
• INVISIBLE NO MORE: BLACK GAY MEN OVER 50 ARE FDG THE SILVER LG
• WHEN I WAS HOMELS, I SOLD MY BODY GAY SNAS TO SURVIVE
• REPORT SHEDS NEW LIGHT ON LIV OF HOMELS GAY YOUTH

'THE INSPECTN' HIGHLIGHTS A GAY BLACK MARE'S EXPERIENCE UNR 'DON'T ASK, DON'T TELL'

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.

YOUNG, BLACK, GAY AND HOMELS, TYRON JACKSON ED TO THK HE DIDN’T MATTER. NOW HIS WORK SPEAKS FOR SELF

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. The Trevor Project is the world’s largt suici preventn and crisis terventn anizatn for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, & qutng (LGBTQ) young people.

Servg our youth 2015: The needs and experienc of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and qutng youth experiencg homelsns. Servg our youth: Fdgs om a natnal survey of service provirs workg wh lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr youth who are homels or at risk of beg homels.

INVISIBLE NO MORE: BLACK GAY MEN OVER 50 ARE FDG THE SILVER LG

Journal of Gay & Lbian Social Servic, 29(2), 182-200. No Past nor Current Hog Instabily n = 24, 874 (%)Past Hog Instabilyn = 9, 666 (%) Currently Homelsn = 219 (%)Race / EthnicyAI/AN328 (1)244 (3)14 (7)AAPI1, 605 (7)297 (3)3 (1)Black1, 235 (5)469 (5)18 (8)Latx3, 550 (15)1, 304 (14)23 (11)Multiracial3, 855 (16)2, 078 (22)49 (24)Whe13, 430 (56)4, 850 (52)99 (48)Sexual IntyStraight / Heterosexual273 (1)92 (1)4 (2)Gay or Lbian7, 172 (29)2, 517 (26)42 (19)Bisexual9, 402 (38)3, 123 (32)77(36)Queer2, 966 (12)1, 237 (13)25 (12)Pansexual4, 000 (16)2, 335 (24)62 (29)Qutng886 (4)303(3)6 (3)Genr IntyCisgenr boy3, 500 (14)1, 025 (11)21 (10)Cisgenr girl10, 161 (41)2, 973 (31)63 (30)Transgenr girl571 (2)339(4)13 (6)Transgenr boy2, 112 (9)1, 331 (14)36 (17)Nonbary5, 737 (23)3, 028 (32)65 (31)Genr Qutng 2, 429 (10)769(8)14 (7)Cens RegnNortheast4, 073 (16)1, 312 (14)27 (12)South8, 732 (35)3, 517 (36)72 (33)Midwt5, 709 (23)2, 258 (23)40 (18)Wt6, 360 (26)2, 579 (27)80 (36)Age13 – 1814, 716 (59)4, 882 (50)73 (33)18 – 2410, 158 (41)4, 784 (49)146 (67).

Multihyphenate filmmaker Elegance Bratton said his latt project, “The Inspectn, ” about a gay homels Black man who jos the Mar, hs pecially close to home after he was kicked out as a teenager for beg gay and spent a livg on the streets. The film, which is loosely based on Bratton’s life, foc on the challeng the ma character, Ellis French, experienc as a young gay Black man durg the ary’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” era.

The policy, which was effect between 1994 and 2011, banned gay and lbian service members om servg openly the armed forc. ’” He add, “I n see her havg a very plited sense of pri over all of this, even if didn’t move her to change her stance around homosexualy. "A24Bratton said he tapped Unn for the role of his homophobic mother bee of Unn’s “artistry, activism, and she’s also a superstar that everyone the world knows.

WHEN I WAS HOMELS, I SOLD MY BODY GAY SNAS TO SURVIVE

One afternoon, as he was walkg om his Santa Ana motel room to the Market Place Tt for his job at Rub’s, a group of young, whe high school kids beat him up, llg him racial and homophobic slurs. (Courty of TyRon Jackson) One of the reasons Jackson started his anizatn back 2008 was bee as a relatively unknown Black gay man, he saw that many didn’t tst him.

He unrstood that when whe athlet me to town and did the same kd of muny service, they would be wrten up the prs as a the same time, he experienced people offerg to volunteer or donate s of water, but backg out last mute after they read about him and learned that he was gay. He realized he uldn’t be slowed down by volunteers flakg out due to homophobia. Gay Orange County pageant and won.

“And if someone was stg next to a Black person or a gay person or a trans person, they were able to tell them that they matter. “That’s jt nasty, ” they would mutter about the femme gay man stg at the b stop. In fact, most of the murrs have been of Black trans women, Miller is a Black gay man livg Atlanta, Geia.

REPORT SHEDS NEW LIGHT ON LIV OF HOMELS GAY YOUTH

It is believed that the reason he was targeted is bee Julian is visibly gay. A 14-year-old boy murred by his 53-year-old father for beg gay.

Acrdg to Gvanni’s former foster mother, his father would “rather have a ad son than a gay son. Many rpond wh stori of terror — parents who chased them out of their home wh a knife, or threatened to “beat the gay out of them. Bee the realy is that s like those of Candace Towns, Julian Miller, and Gvanni Melton are not unmon, and is those beliefs that lead to Black queer and trans the past two weeks, a Black trans woman has been murred, a Black gay man was shot and is currently reverg, and a 14 year old Black boy was murred.