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LGBT Immigrant Youth Face Increased Risk of Homelessness

posted by: Steve Williams 2 days ago

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more 37 comments Imagine moving to a new country with your family in pursuit of a better life, only to have your parents disown you and make you homeless when they find out about your sexuality or gender identity. 

This is the focus of a recent Feet in Two Worlds feature that catalogs in moving detail the personal stories of gay immigrant youth who have been made homeless due to their sexuality. 

Feet in Two Worlds is an organization that tells the stories of today's immigrant communities, and over the passed week the site has highlighted the very serious problem of LGBT immigrant youth in New York who are being made homeless after admitting their sexual orientation or gender identity to their families and their communit http://www.care2.com/causes/civil-rights/blog/lgbt-immigrant-youth-vulnerable-homelessness/