Gay and homels: In pla sight, a largely hidn populatn
Contents:
- WHEN I WAS HOMELS, I SOLD MY BODY GAY SNAS TO SURVIVE
- GAY AND HOMELS: IN PLA SIGHT, A LARGELY HIDN POPULATN
WHEN I WAS HOMELS, I SOLD MY BODY GAY SNAS TO SURVIVE
Denholm Spurr on how he beme homels after g out to his parents and rorted to sex work gay snas to stay off the streets. * homless gay *
The assumptn of overreprentatn of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people among those experiencg homelsns is wily discsed by policymakers and advot, but very few studi have documented this g methods that reliably produce populatn timat.
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.
GAY AND HOMELS: IN PLA SIGHT, A LARGELY HIDN POPULATN
46) pared to gay/lbian youth.