INFOGRAPHIC: One Of The Biggest Challenges Facing Gay People Isn’t Marriage Equality

It’s homelessness. If you ever wonder why LGBTQ youth find it hard to believe that “it gets better,” maybe it’s because very few of them are seriously thinking about getting married, but 50% of them experience negative reactions when coming out to their parents and 19% of transgender youth experience homelessness at least once in…

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Rebecca Eisenberg

Nov 13, 2012

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