Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Kids Struggle on the Streets


By SUSAN DONALDSON JAMES | Dec. 13, 2011

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/national-report-16-million-youth-homeless-experts-40/story?id=15147566#.Tuh7RVb2b1Y

Tiffany "LIFE" Cocco has been homeless for seven years, living on park benches, stoops and New York City's A train.

Her parents died of AIDS in the 1980s and so Cocco was raised by an aunt and uncle who disapproved of how she dressed and led her life -- as a lesbian.

"I was kicked out of the house at 15," said Cocco, a poet whose chosen middle name means "literary, intelligent, forward, engaged."