Posted on 07/03/2013 1:36:10 PM PDT by Olog-hai
The Department of Health and Human Services through its Administration for Children & Families plans to spend almost $1 million on “transitional living programs” for homeless lesbian, gay, lesbian, transgender and/or questioning (LGBTQ) youth.
“Each year in the United States, an estimated 1.6 million unaccompanied youth between the ages of 12 and 17 experience homelessness, which puts youth at a high risk for health, behavioral, and socioemotional problems compared to the general youth population,” ACF explained in its grant announcement.
“It is estimated that between 20 and 40 percent of all homeless youth identify as LGBTQ,” the grant said. “This is disproportionate to the estimated percentage of LGBTQ youth in the general population, which is between 4 and 10 percent.” Youth that identify as LGBTQ “are more likely to run away or be rejected by their family due to lack of acceptance of their sexual orientation or gender identity/expression,” the grant said. …
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How about housing those poor souls who lost everything to Sandy and the tornadoes in Oklahoma???
Sandy’s victims are still living in tents and using those nasty Port-o-Potties!
I was on Classmates.com looking through a yearbook from 1963 and I laughed when I saw the word ‘gay’ used to describe the kids. Back then ‘Gay’ meant happy.
We need to take that word back.
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