LGBT Homelessness

[High Nigga Pie]

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

As 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 as bisexual). About 30 percent of clients using housing-related services (like emergency shelter and transitional living programs) were LGBT.
What was particularly disconcerting about this study was how evident family rejection contributed to this disproportionate number of homeless LGBT youth:

Of all the agencies’ LGBT homeless clients, 68 percent have experienced family rejection and more than half (54 percent) experienced abuse in their family. Fortunately, nearly 80 percent of the service providers who work with clients under the age of 18 are doing family acceptance-related work, though only about half of providers working with older youth offer such resources.
The largest barriers to doing more work to reduce LGBT youth homelessness were insufficient state funding, insufficient local funding, and insufficient federal funding.
This data demands that more be done to support these agencies, but important than treating the symptom is treating the problem itself. Family rejection is devastating the lives of young people across the country, and very few organizations outside the Family Acceptance Project are addressing this issue. It’s all too easy to see LGBT homeless youth as an invisible population, but there is a very visible onslaught of anti-gay and anti-trans propaganda specifically targeting parents to raise their fears of the LGBT community. Rather than protecting children, the anti-gay efforts led by conservative evangelical Christians may very well be causing the exact kinds of child abuse that they blame LGBT people for.

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Really Fucked up shit.

[matt romney]

self harm, suicide risk, mental illness, drug abuse, all spike with lgbt.

fuck homo/transphobia

[Younes]

Oh the idyllic American family values and traditions, this is a major problem that the politicians and commentators don't wanna admit into because it will challenge the American idea of an family, same goes for the high number of divorce rates.

[High Nigga Pie]

For divorce rates I personally believe that is because people act fake, they try to impress the other person and once they get married their true colors show and they realize they don't like each other. Anywho, fuck American family structures.

[matt romney]

Naw it's the capitalist social order and nuclear family

[High Nigga Pie]

Of course it is, Marx will save us all!

[Younes]

I believe it is because of the lack of social security and welfare in America that leads to people, especially females to depend on marriage to save their future considering the economic perspective.
In USA as far as I understand, it's alot about knocking yourself up with a guy, I heard all these stories about poking holes in condoms and so on, to get yourself a child and push the guy to either support you or pay child support for the soon to come child.
Also when you get divorced, as far as I understand, woman gets half of your shit, and if she got a child, she will also take the f**king house.
So Of course, when taking this into account, and forgetting what marriage idealistically should be about, it leads to far more divorces.
But the lack of welfare and social security have always been there, so why are divorce rates sky rocketing, well I believe it's due to the social acceptability, it was simply ill viewed back then to divorce, kinda tabu thing to do. Now a days it's far more accepted by the public, so of course, when mother fuckers get the chance, they divorce right away and get away with cash. I ain't say that's the case for everybody, but I would believe it makes out quite the big part of the number of divorces.

[High Nigga Pie]

Well economics play into everything in a world that commodisizes everything, and some of the cases you mentioned are there, but they are not widespread. But there are many cases of two financially secure people who get married and get into bitter divorces soon, or long, afterwards, and I think thats because of the ideal people try to fit as a partner soon fades and you begin to act like yourself and your partner does as well and you both realize you don't like each other.

[Younes]

^
Yeah but you must realize, that shit pretty much goes down all over the world, and what you are describing to me is a typical relationship, You can't avoid that crap, I think the problem have roots in the glamour presentation of American family tradition marriage bullshit, which programs every person to search for someone to marry, and economic security.

[psy0nyd3]

Arranged marriages usually tend to outlast individualized ones because in an arranged marriage you are together for obvious economic reasons and you have pressure from both extended families to stay together. Marriage has always been economic though its not about love its just a method to keep wealth intact in families. In the west when we changed it to the concept of 'soul mates' and love we forgot to see that marriage exists only for the benefit of the state.

Its sad to see this as such a cause for homelessness. A lot of these LBGT homeless boys and girls have families that are probably financially sound, and able to put them through school and support them or help them get a job and find transportation to and from it. Except, because their preacher man told them that this particular lifestyle is evil they totally get ostracized. I don't get how someone could put a wall up like that in front of their own flesh and blood, and for something that matters so little in the grand scheme of things... Its so disgusting.

[High Nigga Pie]

It is abundent everywhere because most places have an unrealistic ideal of what a relationship is. People need their partners, you should never need your partner. You should enjoy them and love them, but if they die or leave you, you shouldn't be lost, maybe hurt, but not lost. Now this fits into your idea of economic problems, but it is also psychological need.

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Fuck ignorance.

[1871]

Meh, Iran have their own way of dealing with this.