Emergency shelter sought for homels LGBT teens – Geia Voice – Gay & LGBT Atlanta News

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.

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.

EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS ATLANTA

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

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

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.