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YOUNG, GAY AND LIVG ON THE STREET: LGBT YOUTH FACE CREASED ODDS OF HOMELSNS
While this statistic is partially due to a “s olr pilgrimage of gay and transgenr youth” to San Francis, a cy known as a haven to queer folk seekg equaly, the numbers are bleak throughout the untry: Lambda Legal reports that anywhere om 20 to 40 percent of all homels youth the Uned Stat intify as LGBTQ. “Ron and I, as a gay uple, had been thkg about startg a fay, " Erik Green tells me durg a chat a few weeks back.
"And ’s a ltle more plited for gay folks than is for straight folks, or n be, let’s say. Kids of lor, Ain Amerin, Lato, gay, trans, bisexual kids, " Auerswald said. 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).
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.