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Article: On the streets: facing discrimination on all sides, queer homeless youth in New York City have few places to go.(Sylvia's Place homeless shelter)
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- Curve
- Article date:
- March 1, 2009
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NETTY BROWN and Star Johnson are like most young couples. They go to college, take walks along the water, read, write poetry. And, most importantly, they're, finally both 21, which means they can go out and party sometimes, too.
Unlike most twentysomething couples, Brown and Johnson are homeless, splitting nights between the grimy plastic seats of the New York City subway and friends' couches, That was until they found shelter at Sylvia's Place, just one of three LGBT-specific youth shelters that have opened in the city since 2002 to deal with, the overflow of homeless queer youth.
At Sylvia's Place, Brown and Johnson, along with 26 other young people ...