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Epidemic of Homelessness Among LGBT Youth

FROM THE NATIONAL GAY AND LESBIAN TASK FORCE

December 15, 2006

Policy Institute report: Epidemic of homelessness among LGBT youth

Angelika Santiago speaks to a packed press conference at New York City Hall about her experience of becoming homeless. The Dec. 14 conference marked the release of the Task Force Policy Institute’s 192-page report, Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth: An epidemic of homelessness, produced in collaboration with the National Coalition for the Homeless.

Read the press release and download the report.

[ Read coverage by the Associated Press and Metro ][ Watch Telemundo’s Spanish-language broadcast coverage on YouTube ](Photo, left to right: Policy Institute report author Nicholas Ray, New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, Angelika Santiago, Councilman Alan Gerson. Credit: Inga Sarda-Sorensen)