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Covenant Hoe is mted to all our lotns beg welg, affirmg, and safe for young gay homels people who intify as LGBTQ+ * lgbt homeless youth organizations *
Rearch has shown that those who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, or qutng (LGBTQ+) have a 120% higher risk of experiencg some form of homelsns.
Lbian and gay men also reported higher levels of timate partner vlence and sexual vlence when pared to heterosexual relatnships. What You Need To KnowRearch has shown that those who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, or qutng (LGBTQ+) have a 120% higher risk of experiencg some form of who intify as LGBTQ+ disproportnately experience homelsns. DonateGet HelpTransformg LivOur MissnThe missn of the Ali Forney Center is to protect homels Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Qutng youths om the harms of homelsns and empower them wh the tools need to be pennt.
While the challeng of intifyg and ntactg youth experiencg homelsns make difficult to tablish the exact prevalence of LGBTQ youth homelsns, is timated that lbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) youth make up 7-9% of the general populatn (Wilson, Cooper, Kastanis, & Nezhad, 2014) but 29% of youth experiencg homelsns (Choi et al., 2015).
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1 It is important to note that due to a failure to llect nuanced sexual orientatn and genr inty data many large-sle surveys, much of the prev rearch on LGBTQ youth actually only vers those who are lbian, gay, or bisexual. In this report, fdgs that only apply to lbian, gay, or bisexual youth will be noted wh the acronym LGB and fdgs which apply to lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, or qutng youth will be noted wh acronym LGBTQ. 46) pared to gay/lbian youth.