Giving Them Shelter: Portraits of Young Lives in Limbo (blog/commentary)

[Natasha]

Giving Them Shelter: Portraits of Young Lives in Limbo

[ur=http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/17/giving-them-shelter-portraits-of-young-lives-in-limbo/]New York Times[/url]
4/17/2008

"Charlene, a transgender woman who has used a variety of names,
including Jennifer and Janet, and now calls herself Natasha Ray. She
was raised by two hard-working, well-meaning parents, but then her
father died and, after 9/11, her mother lost her job and her house.
After sleeping on buses, on trains and in parks, Charlene found
herself in a shelter run by Covenant House, where she said she was
beaten up because of her sexual identity."

[Shana A]

Giving Them Shelter: Portraits of Young Lives in Limbo

By Sewell Chan

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/17/giving-them-shelter-portraits-of-young-lives-in-limbo/?hp

A new book of documentary photographs, "Shelter," examines a group of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender young people living, off and on, at a homeless shelter in Hell's Kitchen — a group for whom growing up could hardly be more difficult. That the book is the product of a 27-year-old photographer who is gay, grew up in poverty and once lived in a homeless shelter himself explains its empathetic tone and morally urgent message.