Combattg surge of LGBTQ youth homelsns D.C. - Washgton Bla: LGBTQ News, Polics, LGBTQ Rights, Gay News

Contents:

• REPORT SHEDS NEW LIGHT ON LIV OF HOMELS GAY YOUTH
• GAY AND TRANSGENR YOUTH HOMELSNS BY THE NUMBERS
• THE NEEDS OF GAY AND SEXUAL MORY, HOMELS YOUTH: RULTS OF A NATNAL SURVEY
• YOUNG, GAY AND LIVG ON THE STREET: LGBT YOUTH FACE CREASED ODDS OF HOMELSNS
• YOUNG, GAY, AND HOMELS

REPORT SHEDS NEW LIGHT ON LIV OF HOMELS GAY YOUTH

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.

GAY AND TRANSGENR YOUTH HOMELSNS BY THE NUMBERS

”Cys, 18 (Trans Male)Letizia Martti“I didn't even know what beg gay or beg trans meant until I was about 15 years old bee was a bad thg to know my fay. 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.

Dpe the gas ma for gay rights recent years, homels LGBT (lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr) youth have benefed ltle. Once homels, they are exposed to the perils of street life: vlence, survival sex, and, some s, youth homelsns has been an issue sce at least the 1969 Stonewall rts New York, often regard as triggerg the morn gay rights movement, which many homels youth participated. “It’s hard for me to image a worse and more harmful exprsn of homophobia our time than the fact that there are hundreds of thoands of kids who are beg rejected by their fai and put out onto the streets, ” said Carl Siciliano, executive director of the Ali Forney Center, a shelter for LGBT youth New 4, 000 beds are available across the untry for homels young adults; of those, 350, mostly New York, are LGBT specific.

In Detro, shelter lears said they tell youth where they n squat wh others abandoned homelsns has worsened, activists said, even though acceptance of the signature gay rights issue of the last —same-sex marriage—has risen. That shift, pl the emergence of gay celebri and popular LGBT-themed televisns shows, has enuraged youth to e out earlier. “I knew that they were talkg about me beg gay.

THE NEEDS OF GAY AND SEXUAL MORY, HOMELS YOUTH: RULTS OF A NATNAL SURVEY

Michael Rubenste / for NBC NewsStanley’s sister, Deonna Cleckley, said she wasn’t aware of that but did adm to stgglg wh Stanley’s genr inty and sexual orientatn and makg anti-gay remarks. New fectns among gay male 13-to-24 year olds creased 22 percent om 2008 to 2010, acrdg to the Centers for Disease Control and Preventn’s most recent data. Young, black gay men are severely affected, the CDC said, acuntg for more new fectns than any other lk between HIV and homelsns among LGBT young adults is clear, activists and rearchers said.

“Hog is HIV preventn, ” said Jeremy Ortman, assistant director of mental health at Gay Men’s Health Crisis. ”The group started an iative March to teach fai, relig lears and social service workers ways to help stem gay youth homelsns and suici Utah. “It’s so important to help fai unrstand that they n support that LGBT adolcent even if they thk that beg gay or transgenr is wrong, ” she said.

YOUNG, GAY AND LIVG ON THE STREET: LGBT YOUTH FACE CREASED ODDS OF HOMELSNS

”In Detro, the Ruth Ellis Center said will soon sign a state ntract to work wh child servic a bid to prevent gay youth om leavg home. The rearch built on several studi on homels youth, cludg a survey out of New York that found that gay, lbian, bisexual, and transgenr youth were seven tim more likely to have trad sex for food or a place to stay. ” Many of the stori tailed the report are tellg; and a great al of those who engaged the work didn’t intify as gay—but they found themselv sellg their bodi to people of the same sex orr to survive.

” Another 19-year-old gay Lato said he felt he had no choice: “If you have no food your stomach, if you have no transportatn, but you have a man your face willg to give you money for a half hour. Even though the report foc on New York Cy, Dank strsed that is not “the place where all gay kids go to engage survival sex. Report: On the Streets: The Feral Rponse to Gay and Transgenr Homels Youth.

8 ln homels young people the Uned Stat, and timat suggt that disproportnate numbers of those youth are gay, lbian, bisexual, or transgenr. The vulnerable gay and transgenr youth often n away om home bee of fay nflict and then face overt discrimatn when seekg alternative hog, which is pound by stutnalized discrimatn ferally fund programs. The feral ernment has the power to rce and eventually elimate rat of gay and transgenr youth homelsns while addrsg youth homelsns overall.

YOUNG, GAY, AND HOMELS

They should jo wh feral agenci and uple wh an expansn of equal rights and protectns to all gay, lbian, bisexual, and transgenr people. An alarmg number of gay and transgenr young people are homels. 20 to 40 percent: The portn of the homels youth populatn who are gay or transgenr, pared to only 5 to 10 percent of the overall youth populatn.

320, 000 to 400, 000: A nservative timate of the number of gay and transgenr youth facg homelsns each year. 4: The average age that lbian and gay youth New York bee homels. Homels gay and transgenr youth see higher rat of abe and victimizatn.

58 percent: The portn of homels gay and transgenr youth who have been sexually asslted, pared to 33 percent of homels heterosexual youth. 44 percent: The portn of homels gay and transgenr youth who reported beg asked by someone on the street to exchange sex for money, food, dgs, shelter, or cloth, pared to 26 percent of straight homels youth.