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Article: New York City Study Confirms Nearly One-Third of City's Homeless Youth are Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- December 19, 2007
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The National Gay & Lesbian Task Force issued the following news release:
NEW YORK -- A new study commissioned by the New York City Council has found that almost one-third of New York's homeless youth identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender, confirming the findings of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force's groundbreaking national study, LGBT Youth: An Epidemic of Homelessness, released last December.
"We applaud the City Council for committing the resources to uncover and address this tragedy," said Matt Foreman, executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. "While LGBT people make up about five percent of the city's population, our youth constitute an ...