STUDY: 40 Percent Of Homeless Youth Are LGBT, Family Rejection Is Leading Cause

STUDY: 40 Percent Of Homeless Youth Are LGBT, Family Rejection Is Leading Cause: pAs many as 40 percent of homeless youth identify as LGBT, and a new Williams Institute study of youth shelters confirms this estimate. Between October 2011 and March 2012, 354 agencies completed surveys about their clients and found that about 40 percent of their homeless and non-homeless clients were LGBT (9 percent of whom identified [...]/p