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Subject: 40 Percent of Homeless Youth are LGBT


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As many as 40 percent of homeless youth identify as LGBT, and a new Williams Inst­itute study of youth shelters confirms this estimate. Between October 2011 and March 2012, 354 agencies completed surveys about their clients and found that about 40 percent of their homeless and non-homeless clients were LGBT (9 percent of whom identified as bis­exual). About 30 percent of clients using housing-related services (like emergency shelter and transitional living programs) were LGBT.

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.

This data demands that more be done to support these agencies, but important than treating the symptom is treating the problem itself. Family rejection is devastating the lives of young people across the country, and very few organizations outside the Family Acceptance Project are addressing this issue. It's all too easy to see LGBT homeless youth as an invisible population, but there is a very visible onslaught of anti-g­ay and anti-trans propaganda specifically targeting parents to raise their fears of the LGBT community. Rather than protecting children, the anti-g­ay efforts led by conservative evangelical Christians may very well be causing the exact kinds of child abuse that they blame LGBT people for.


This isn't at all surprising but it still really bothers me. Seriously why does there have to be people in the world that would disown their child over their orientation?

I am glad that it seems that much of society, especially the younger generations, are moving in the right direction but it is still sad that it is taking this long.

  • 01.04.2013 5:09 PM PDT

Posted by: Falcon Saber
I like how your sub box is full of science and political videos but your recommendations are full of anime girls kissing each other.

Just Zoid being Zoid ^_^

I thought LGBT was a gang

  • 01.04.2013 5:10 PM PDT
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pppht, like LGBT people are treated unfairly at all!

EDIT: that was sarcasm btw guys

[Edited on 01.04.2013 5:23 PM PST]

  • 01.04.2013 5:11 PM PDT

In a time long past, the armies of the dark came again to the lands of men. Their leaders became known as the fallen lords, and their terrible sorcery was without equal in the west.
In 30 years they reduced the civilized nations into carrion and ash. Until the free city of Madrigal alone defined them. An army gathered there, and a desperate battle was joined against the fallen
Heros were born in the fire and bloodshed of the wars which followed and their names and deeds will never be forgotten

what is LGBT?

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Posted by: QB1
Id kick my kid out if he was ghey.

  • 01.04.2013 5:11 PM PDT

Posted by: Dropship dude
No, acnboy. Spartain Ken 15 is a lesser being. Much like the bacteria that lives in your shi­t.
Posted by: mike120593
My shi­t bacteria takes offense to that comparison.

Don't make me lel. You won't like me when I lel.

Posted by: spartain ken 15
what is LGBT?
most of the words are blammed

-blam!- -blam!- bi-blam!- transgender

  • 01.04.2013 5:12 PM PDT


Posted by: spartain ken 15
what is LGBT?


l3sbian ghey bi transgender

  • 01.04.2013 5:12 PM PDT

everything/anything can be compared to sand on a beach


Posted by: QB1
Id kick my kid out if he was ghey.


lol

  • 01.04.2013 5:12 PM PDT
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Posted by: the Han

Posted by: QB1
Id kick my kid out if he was ghey.


lol


whats funny?

  • 01.04.2013 5:13 PM PDT

You, I don't like you.

Posted by: spartain ken 15
what is LGBT?

lesbehon ghey bysmexual tranny

  • 01.04.2013 5:14 PM PDT

@Vinyl_Hb


Posted by: BACE
pppht, like LGBT people are treated unfairly at all!

btw OP nice Copy pasta bra


I am laughing so hard at that article right now! lol

  • 01.04.2013 5:14 PM PDT
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Posted by: spartain ken 15
what is LGBT?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT

  • 01.04.2013 5:14 PM PDT


Posted by: QB1

Posted by: the Han

Posted by: QB1
Id kick my kid out if he was ghey.


lol


whats funny?


How, shall we say, pathetic it is to kick your own child out of the house and basically hate it over orientation.

>Many many years of feeding, clothing and generally spending alot of money on them, because you love them
>What's that! You're EXACTLY THE SAME AS BEFORE BUT NOW I REALISE THAT YOU'RE ATTRACTED TO THE SAME SEX! GET OUT!

Yeah...

  • 01.04.2013 5:15 PM PDT
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13.72 billion years in the making.

On December 1st, 2012, I met Neil deGrasse Tyson. I shook the man's hand, and even made him laugh. Not much else to do with my life now.

Posted by: QB1
Id kick my kid out if he was ghey.

Posted by: YodasCurd

Posted by: BACE
pppht, like LGBT people are treated unfairly at all!

btw OP nice Copy pasta bra


I am laughing so hard at that article right now! lol

And that signals the end of my presence in this thread.

  • 01.04.2013 5:16 PM PDT
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Posted by: floppy willy

Posted by: QB1

Posted by: the Han

Posted by: QB1
Id kick my kid out if he was ghey.


lol


whats funny?


How, shall we say, pathetic it is to kick your own child out of the house and basically hate it over orientation.

>Many many years of feeding, clothing and generally spending alot of money on them, because you love them
>What's that! You're EXACTLY THE SAME AS BEFORE BUT NOW I REALISE THAT YOU'RE ATTRACTED TO THE SAME SEX! GET OUT!

Yeah...


Guess I just have diff morals than you sir.

  • 01.04.2013 5:17 PM PDT

everything/anything can be compared to sand on a beach


Posted by: QB1

Posted by: the Han

Posted by: QB1
Id kick my kid out if he was ghey.


lol


whats funny?

it's funny you said that bc most ppl of the flood are pro LBGT, and a flame war is soon to be on the way.

  • 01.04.2013 5:18 PM PDT


Posted by: QB1
Id kick my kid out if he was ghey.

But didn't you say you were a fan of One Direction in another thread...

  • 01.04.2013 5:18 PM PDT
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Posted by: LJ 248

Posted by: QB1
Id kick my kid out if he was ghey.

But didn't you say you were a fan of One Direction in another thread...


yep I like 1D.

Your point?

  • 01.04.2013 5:19 PM PDT
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That doesn't really prove that they got kicked out because of their s.exuality. If spread evenly across that 40 percent, 10 percent would be ghey, 10 percent would be l.esbian and so on. 1 in 10 is perfectly normal.

  • 01.04.2013 5:20 PM PDT


Posted by: QB1

Posted by: LJ 248

Posted by: QB1
Id kick my kid out if he was ghey.

But didn't you say you were a fan of One Direction in another thread...


yep I like 1D.

Your point?

That you like the D

  • 01.04.2013 5:21 PM PDT
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Posted by: LJ 248

Posted by: QB1

Posted by: LJ 248

Posted by: QB1
Id kick my kid out if he was ghey.

But didn't you say you were a fan of One Direction in another thread...


yep I like 1D.

Your point?

That you like the D


apparently not if Im married with a child on the way

  • 01.04.2013 5:21 PM PDT


Posted by: QB1

Posted by: LJ 248

Posted by: QB1
Id kick my kid out if he was ghey.

But didn't you say you were a fan of One Direction in another thread...


yep I like 1D.

Your point?


To 99% of guys you would be ghey.

  • 01.04.2013 5:22 PM PDT
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Posted by: RagedSycokiller

Posted by: QB1

Posted by: LJ 248

Posted by: QB1
Id kick my kid out if he was ghey.

But didn't you say you were a fan of One Direction in another thread...


yep I like 1D.

Your point?


To 99% of guys you would be ghey.


really? because all my friends know I listen to them. They dont think im ghey

  • 01.04.2013 5:23 PM PDT

A PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT PEOPLE

QB1 IS PSU ATHELTICS/DATDUDEBV

IGNORE DA FUQ OUT OF HIM

  • 01.04.2013 5:23 PM PDT

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