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Homelsns impacts people om many backgrounds, so may not seem like an LGBTQ issue. However, the District's 2017 Homels Youth Cens found that 31% of young people experiencg homelsns self-intified as gay, lbian, bisexual, pansexual, or queer/qutng, and 6% self-intified as transgenr.

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MAYOR’S OFFICE OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR AND QUTNG AFFAIRS

Aged 65 or olr intify as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr. Kahlib Barton, Vice Chair, Young Black Gay Mens’ Learship Iniative, and Member, Natnal Youth Fom on Homelsns.

Friendship Place’s LGBTQ+ work group is aimed at s own staff members, board members and volunteers, as well as at reprentativ at other District human servic percent of young people experiencg homelsns intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr or queer, Gird said. However, the District's 2017 Homels Youth Cens found that 31% of young people experiencg homelsns self-intified as gay, lbian, bisexual, pansexual, or queer/qutng, and 6% self-intified as transgenr. The cy's ma stris assistg the most vulnerable members of s gay muny, but there are still big shortfalls.

DC also draws LGBTQ youths om well beyond s borrs, perhaps a cred to s reputatn as a cy wh a thrivg gay populatn. She worked discreetly as an LGBT youth activist, but no one outsi her fay knew she wanted to live as a woman, or even that she was gay. ”Back home, she was an LGBT youth activist and peer tor; she bailed out gay children om jail and took them to see “safe” doctors who wouldn’t out them.

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