It’s difficult to find hard statistics on homeless youth in the United States for many reasons, not all of them obvious. But the current educated guess is in the neighborhood of 1.6 million. (Youth, in this instance, means under 19 years old). And slightly more than forty percent of them, or roughly 640,000 children, […]
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LGBT Youth Find Love From “Your Holiday Mom”
For too many LGBTQ youth, the holidays carry a lonely sting. Disowning and isolation are still all-too-common chapters of the narrative of growing up queer, and with the message of ‘Christmas is a time for family!’ being shouted from all sides, November and December are minefields of unpleasant landmarks for those who have lost their […]
