Study shows 40% of homeless youth are LGBT

gaywrites:

As many as 40 percent of homeless youth identify as LGBT, according to a new study from the Williams Institute.

This number comes from a survey of 354 agencies about their clients. The survey found that 40 percent of homeless and non-homeless clients were LGBT. According to ThinkProgress, family rejection plays a huge role in the disproportionate rate of LGBT homeless youth:

Of all the agencies’ LGBT homeless clients, 68 percent have experienced family rejection and more than half (54 percent) experienced abuse in their family. Fortunately, nearly 80 percent of the service providers who work with clients under the age of 18 are doing family acceptance-related work, though only about half of providers working with older youth offer such resources.

The largest barriers to doing more work to reduce LGBT youth homelessness were insufficient state funding, insufficient local funding, and insufficient federal funding.

We really can’t stand for this anymore. 

(via fuckyeahsexeducation)

Source: gaywrites

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