A Forgotten Youth: New York City Queer Homeless Youth Survive at the Bottom of t

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A Forgotten Youth: New York City Queer Homeless Youth Survive at the Bottom of the Barrel.
By Jimmy Tobias
From the September 18, 2009 issue

http://www.indypendent.org/2009/09/17/a-forgotten-youth/

Across the United States, thousands of kids are kicked out of their homes each year for being lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT ). In some cases, homophobic families dump them on the streets like litter. In other homes, kids run away in fear of retribution or as a result of ridicule.

They have nowhere to go. And the problem grows worse as American youth are "coming out" at increasingly early ages.