Economic crisis hits shelters for homeless LGBT youth hard

While LGBT folks take to the streets to demand the right to marry, it’s sometimes easy to forget a significant number of young people make their way to New York to find their way after their parents kick them out or their hometown shuns them.

Many of these LGBT youth often end up on the streets, in dangerous living situations or perhaps in a temporary shelter-and those facilities and organizations that assist these young people continue to feel the pinch during the economic crisis.

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by Kevin Scott Hall

EDGE Contributor

Tuesday December 23, 2008