America’s shame: 40 percent of homeless youth are LGBT kids

What? To show homeless people of the world Why? To tell that they are human beings under the wrong circumstances How? To provide worldwide information and be a platform for everyone who is working with them. Dedicated to my daughter Merel van Oorschot who is lost in time and space, unable to find her way back home.

America’s shame: 40 percent of homeless youth are LGBT kids

12 years ago

LOS ANGELES – About 40 percent of homeless youth are LGBT, and nearly all homeless youth service providers in the U.S. now serve LGBT youth, according to a comprehensive report on LGBT youth homelessness released Thursday.
Nearly seven in 10 (68 percent) respondents indicated that family rejection was a major factor contributing to LGBT youth homelessness, making it the most cited factor. More than half (54 percent) of respondents indicated that abuse in their family was another important factor contributing to LGBT homelessness.

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Moradores da Rua

Thu Jan 2 , 2014

Moradores da Rua Photography by Martijn Crowe www.thefaketory.org

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