We are all God’s children
By
Davinski
on September 29, 2009 at 05:01 am
Outline:
It is estimated that there are 575,000 to 1.6 million homeless and runaway youth living on the streets from New York to L.A. And of those, 20 to 40% are LGBT.
Many of the children are simply not accepted in their families. For example, Damien Corallo and his brother, both gay, who are staying at Sylvia’s Place, a shelter exclusively for LGBT homeless youth, was told by their aunt that she did not want any “faggots” in the house.
Their story is not uncommon. Thousand have similar stories, especially those in the lower socio-economic class. Says Carl Siciliano, director of the Ali Forney Center (AFC), an organization that provides emergency and transitional housing to LGBT homeless youth in New York City:
“They face the same rejection ( middle and upper class) but when half of your extended family is already living under one roof with you, so close to the street anyway, there is a lot less of a buffer zone.”
The confluence of homophobia and poverty puts kids on the streets and keeps them there.
http://www.indypendent.org/2009/09/17/a-forgotten-youth/
It is estimated that there are 575,000 to 1.6 million homeless and runaway youth living on the streets from New York to L.A. And of those, 20 to 40% are LGBT.
Many of the children are simply not accepted in their families. For example, Damien Corallo and his brother, both gay, who are staying at Sylvia’s Place, a shelter exclusively for LGBT homeless youth, was told by their aunt that she did not want any “faggots” in the house.
Their story is not uncommon. Thousand have similar stories, especially those in the lower socio-economic class. Says Carl Siciliano, director of the Ali Forney Center (AFC), an organization that provides emergency and transitional housing to LGBT homeless youth in New York City:
“They face the same rejection ( middle and upper class) but when half of your extended family is already living under one roof with you, so close to the street anyway, there is a lot less of a buffer zone.”
The confluence of homophobia and poverty puts kids on the streets and keeps them there.
http://www.indypendent.org/2009/09/17/a-forgotten-youth/
