Rejected by their fai, gay teens the South flock to Atlanta | Al Jazeera Ameri

Contents:

• REJECTED BY THEIR FAI, GAY TEENS THE SOUTH FLOCK TO ATLANTA
• EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS ATLANTA
• THE OTHER SI OF THE RABOW: YOUNG, GAY AND HOMELS METRO ATLANTA

REJECTED BY THEIR FAI, GAY TEENS THE SOUTH FLOCK TO ATLANTA

Many people turn a bld eye to this issue, due to the already extremely margalized lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer muny. Atlanta, GALost-n-Found Youth is an Atlanta-based nonprof rporatn whose missn is to take homels lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr youths to age 26 off the street and transn them to more per [...

An timated 750 lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr youth are homels the cy on any given night.

EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS ATLANTA

Peterson, now 23, is one of many young people Geia, and other Bible Belt stat, who flock to the big cy – Atlanta – after g out as gay. Natnally, about 40 percent of homels youth intify as gay, lbian, bisexual or transgenr, acrdg to a survey by UCLA's Williams Instute. Relig fai are more likely to kick out gay children, makg the Bible Belt a particularly tough place to be young and LGBT.

In what activists say is a crisis of gay homels youth Ameri, some ll Atlanta "ground zero. Lost-n-Found Youth is the only Atlanta nonprof dited to gettg homels gay kids off the streets.

THE OTHER SI OF THE RABOW: YOUNG, GAY AND HOMELS METRO ATLANTA

In the past few weeks, a gay Geia teen's vio of his fay disowng and attackg him went viral, garnerg more than 6.

But while this kd of natnal regnn for a gay teen's stggle is unual, says Rick Wtbrook, the executive director of Lost-n-Found, the stggle self is not. Lost-n-Found also proffers another sad fact: Wh 48 hours of beg homels, a third of gay youths will do somethg illegal to survive. "I was very much like, 'OK, mom, I'm gog to throw your face that I'm gay, '" he said.