'We're not hidg': Gay and lbian Rsians say a cultural shift is unrway

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The legacy of a gay teenager who fell om the roof of the Chorlton Street r park 1986 liv on, wh a movement supportg young people Manchter, London and Bristol

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'WE'RE NOT HIDG': GAY AND LBIAN RSIANS SAY A CULTURAL SHIFT IS UNRWAY

<strong>Cldia Cahalane:</strong> First safe ho open for young gay people rejected by their fai and facg threats of physil abe * lgbt homeless manchester *

As a social hog provir Riversi is already signed up to the HoeProud Pledge scheme, the profsnal work for LGBTQ+ people workg the hog sector, signed to ensure Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Queer rints are able to enjoy their hom whout fear of discrimatn. 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. As the only gay person his block of sheltered flats Salford, ronavis has heightened his sense of lonels.

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Sgle, whout any close fay and cut off om an active social life Manchter’s gay village, he spends most of the day wh only the TV for, 57, has been through a panmic before. ”After years of havg to hi his sexual inty at work, Moss says now as a “proud, gay man”, would jt be easier to live his old age supported by LGBTQ+ people and is not alone.

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'We're not hidg': Gay and lbian Rsians say a cultural shift is unrway .

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