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Title: Homelessness among US gay youth an `epidemic`
Post by: LostInTime on December 15, 2006, 03:00:52 PM
Post by: LostInTime on December 15, 2006, 03:00:52 PM
Story Here (http://www.gg2.net/viewnews.asp?nid=4083&tid=countryNews&catid=UK%20News)
WHEN ANGELIKA Santiago was 18 and changing her identity from male to female, her mother issued an ultimatum: Cut her hair and dress as a boy or leave their apartment.
Santiago left their Manhattan home and ended up in a shelter for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender, or LGBT, youths.
Santiago, now 20, is part of an 'epidemic' of homelessness among LGBT youth, according to a new report released on December 14 by the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and the National Coalition for the Homeless.
Another Link Here (http://www.365gay.com/Newscon06/12/121506homeless.htm)
WHEN ANGELIKA Santiago was 18 and changing her identity from male to female, her mother issued an ultimatum: Cut her hair and dress as a boy or leave their apartment.
Santiago left their Manhattan home and ended up in a shelter for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender, or LGBT, youths.
Santiago, now 20, is part of an 'epidemic' of homelessness among LGBT youth, according to a new report released on December 14 by the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and the National Coalition for the Homeless.
Another Link Here (http://www.365gay.com/Newscon06/12/121506homeless.htm)