Gay and homeless

We are akt, our mission is to guarantee that every LGBTQ+ 16-25 year old facing homelessness or a hostile living environment has a sound place to live.

We deliver LGBTQ+ 16-25 year olds at risk of, or experiencing homelessness support they need to thrive. We have four offices located in London, Bristol, Manchester and Newcastle, as successfully as live chat to offer support across the UK.

Coming out or entity outed as LGBTQ+ can still lead to juvenile people being made homeless. We believe that no LGBTQ+ person should be facing homelessness because of their identity.

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Why LGBTQ+ people over 50 who experience homelessness demand our focus too

I recently worked with a 72 year old gay male called Shaun*. Shaun’s HIV positive, has suffered four bouts of cancer, self manages a stoma and has poor mobility. When a flash flood made him homeless, his local authority initially refused to offer him interim accommodation.

Shaun had no immediate family to assist him. I’m sure that, without Stonewall Housing’s advocacy, he would have ended up on the streets. Thankfully we intervened, successfully arguing his case to receive emergency accommodation and working with him to find a longer-term option.

For older members of the LGBTQ+ society, these kinds of situations are more common than you might think. Our research shows they are more likely to encounter isolation, are more likely to be estranged from their biological families and less likely to hold children to turn to for support in their older years.

To truly comprehend why older people who identify as LGBTQ+ may experience difficulties like Shaun, it’s important to grasp the environment they grew up in.

In 1983, against the backdrop of the emerging AIDs crisis, homophobic attacks from the compress

Homelessness Among LGBT Adults in the US

Executive Summary

This research is the first to provide estimates of the percentage of sexual and gender minority adults experiencing homelessness compared to cisgender straight adults using spokesperson national data. We provide estimates of homelessness (both recent experiences and lifetime prevalence) from three nationally representative surveys of U.S. adults conducted between 2016 and 2019 measuring sexual orientation and gender identity.

We examined the proportion of people who had recent experiences with homelessness (in the form of living temporarily with friends or family, living in a shelter or group dwelling, or living in a place not intended for housing such as on the street, park, ride, or abandoned building) in the 12 months prior to being surveyed. We found that:

• 8% of trans adults across all sexual orientation identities;
• 3% of cisgender and genderqueer sexual minority adults;
• and 1% of cisgender straight adults reported indicators of recent homelessness.
• Among sexual minority adults, African American respondents had significantly higher rates (6%) of recent housing instability.

We also assessed the proportion o

Two young women in elevated school are best friends, or so their families thought until they discovered that the duo were more than friends. The reaction of their families was strong and harsh.Both of these young women were thrown out of their homes by their parents because of who they are and who they love. It’s not an uncommon story and one that leads to many young LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer/Questioning) people facing homelessness.

 “One of the major factors that contributes to homelessness and poverty for the LGBTQ population is family rejection. Such rejection also has a wonderful impact on a person’s ability to afford a home. For older people, severed family ties can mean a lack of access to capital for a down payment, which is often cited as a major barrier to home ownership,” explains Luis A. Vasquez, Daniel H. Renberg Law Fellow at The Williams Institute, UCLA, School of Law. Vasquez is one of the authors, along with Adam P. Romero and Shoshana K. Goldberg, of the report LGBT People and Housing Affordability, Discrimination and Homelessness that was published by the Williams Institute in April 2020.

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