I knew that a large portion of the homeless community was LGBT.
Now I have the numbers:
As many as 40 percent of homeless youth identify as LGBT, and a new Williams Institute study of youth shelters confirms this estimate. Between October 2011 and March 2012, 354 agencies completed surveys about their clients and found that about 40 percent of their homeless and non-homeless clients were LGBT (9 percent of whom identified as bisexual). About 30 percent of clients using housing-related services (like emergency shelter and transitional living programs) were LGBT.
And the main reason they are homeless is rejection by family:
And guess what's causing this!
It’s all too easy to see LGBT homeless youth as an invisible population, but there is a very visible onslaught of anti-gay and anti-trans propaganda specifically targeting parents to raise their fears of the LGBT community. Rather than protecting children, the anti-gay efforts led by conservative evangelical Christians may very well be causing the exact kinds of child abuse that they blame LGBT people for.
Yup it's "family values"! "Family value" apparently means throwing out your children, subjecting them to violence and poverty, and fucking their futures. You can have your "family values", I'd rather be a decent human being.