[“The Other Si of the Rabow: Young, Gay and Homels Metro Atlanta” is part 1 of a 3 part seri on LGBT issu. Bookmark this page for updat.] In April 2008, Brian Dixon was 18-years-old and homels. Beg gay, he says, only exacerbated his prediment. After allegedly endurg years of mental and physil abe, […]
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
Covenant Hoe is mted to all our lotns beg welg, affirmg, and safe for young gay homels people who intify as LGBTQ+ * gay homeless shelter 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.
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.
EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS ATLANTA
An timated 750 lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr youth are homels the cy on any given night * gay homeless shelter atlanta *
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. 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.
THE OTHER SI OF THE RABOW: YOUNG, GAY AND HOMELS METRO ATLANTA
Art Izzard said he often fds homels gay kids sleepg unr this bridge, which is behd a few gay bars. Dgs, theft and "survival sex" – hookg up for a warm place to sleep at night – are all mon rorts for gay homels youth Atlanta, says Art Izzard, who's spent the last five years tryg to track down and help them as Lost-n-Found's outreach director.
At one spot, unr a bridge, off a nng trail, behd a few gay bars, he says he fds kids as young as 16.