Mosaic Tst is the London hub for LGBT+ (lbian, gay, bisexual, trans and more) young persons
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'WE'RE NOT HIDG': GAY AND LBIAN RSIANS SAY A CULTURAL SHIFT IS UNRWAY
While homelsns among gay, lbian and transgenr people creas, the few anisatns that offer help face a stggle to survive * lgbt homeless london *
John, a young gay man om Manchter, fled his homophobic father’s attacks after g out to his parents.
"He was g my gayns and throwg at me, " Joe says. More than six 10 LGBTQ young people surveyed said they felt ightened or threatened by their fay members before they beme homels, acrdg to an AKT report, while more than half feared beg evicted om the fay home if they me report also claimed that six 10 faced some form of discrimatn or harassment while accsg rearch took place over six months to January and terviewed 161 LGBTQ people aged 16-25 who had experienced homelsns the past five Joe and Sara said they had faced barriers while accsg servic that were lked to their sexualy, rangg om homophobia om landlords or other homels people, to forms that didn't list their sexualy.
"In some plac where I stayed you uld hear some people's nversatn - 's almost hatred and 's almost disgt, their jok and their nversatn, " he fact, he said, he had heard that one hostel, four men had been raped bee had been disvered that they had been gay. The are the chari offerg people, particularly LGBTQ+ youth, are experiencg worrygly high levels of homelsns across the llected by LGBTQ+ homels chary AKT suggts that almost a quarter of young people aged 16 to 25 at risk of homelsns intify as eher lbian, gay, bisexual, trans or non-bary.