Homeless Youth Surveyed About HIV
February 8, 2010 by Gay Agenda News Team
“You need to find a different place to live. Pack your stuff up in 15 minutes.”
Sabrina and her partner found themselves in a situation faced by an alarming number of youth who come out to their families as gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender: homeless.
The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force refers to gay youth homelessness as an “epidemic,” and estimates that 20 to 40 percent of homeless youth identify as GLBT. Portland has a disproportionately high number of gay youth, with 40 percent of the 2,000 homeless youth in Portland identifying as gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender. “That’s quite large,” says Kathy Oliver, executive director of Outside In, an agency serving homeless youth.
I will bet you any amount of money that those kids who were thrown out had religious parents. And people believe religion is a good thing HAH I beg to differ.