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More than 1 in 4 LGBTQ youth have experienced homelessness or housing instability at some point in their lives, a new report from The Trevor Project shows, including nearly half of Native/Indigenous LGBTQ youth and nearly 40 percent of transgender and nonbinary youth.

Thirty-five percent of LGBTQ youth who are homeless and 28 percent who have experienced housing instability also reported a suicide attempt in the last year, compared to 10 percent of LGBTQ youth who are not housing insecure. Homeless LGBTQ youth are also two to four times more likely to report depression, anxiety, self-harm, suicidal thoughts and suicide attempts.

These findings, said Jonah DeChants, one of the authors of the study and a research scientist for The Trevor Project - an LGBTQ youth crisis intervention and suicide prevention organization - "paint a pretty serious picture about the need to provide better mental health services for folks who are experiencing housing instability."

It came as no surprise to the researchers that LGBTQ youth of color and trans and nonbinary youth are disproportionately affected by homelessness and mental health issues.

"When you start adding homophobia, plus racism or transphobia, plus anti-Indigenous racism," DeChants said, "then we again start to see that young people who are experiencing multiple forms of marginalization and oppression - those are the folks who tend to be pushed out of housing supports and experiencing homelessness."

Experts say the pandemic has also exacerbated housing and mental health concerns. Last year more than 80 percent of LGBTQ youth reported that the pandemic has worsened their housing situations, according to The Trevor Project's 2021 National Survey on LGBTQ Youth Mental Health.

"Nothing repairs the damage that is typically done by being rejected by your family, your community, the culture at large," Bill Torres, director of drop-in support services at the Ali Forney Center in New York, one of the largest LGBTQ youth homeless shelters in the U.S., said. "In regards to the impact of how Covid is affecting everyone, it just increased those issues tenfold."

Kate Barnhart, the executive director of New Alternatives, a drop-in crisis center for homeless LGBTQ youth and people living with HIV in New York, said the hopelessness of the pandemic is driving some suicides among clients.

"We're seeing people who've gotten disconnected from their medical and their mental health services," Barnhart said. "Telehealth is fine if you're middle class, but if you don't have a device, or you don't have Wi-Fi or you're in an eight-man room at the shelter, and you don't have the privacy to talk to your psychiatrist ... that doesn't work that well."

Researchers note that the passage of LGBTQ nondiscrimination protections and LGBTQ competent housing programs can help close the gaps in care.

Elisa Crespo, the executive director of the New Pride Agenda, an LGBTQ advocacy group, advised that increased access to employment and permanent housing can also help LGBTQ young adults who are experiencing homelessness.

"That means putting funding behind the implementation and education process of the policies that may already exist - so that not only young people understand their rights and protections, but housing providers understand as well," Crespo said.
If you or someone you know is in crisis, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 800-273-8255, text HOME to 741741 or visit SpeakingOfSuicide.com/resources for additional resources.

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Homelessness linked to poor mental health among LGBTQ youth, report finds

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More than 1 in 4 LGBTQ youth have experienced homelessness or housing instability at some point in their lives, a new report from The Trevor Project shows, including nearly half of Native/Indigenous LGBTQ youth and nearly 40 percent of transgender and nonbinary youth.

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Earlier this year, Gallup released a poll finding that about 1 in 6 U.S. adults in Generation Z identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, and/or transgender (LGBT). If you were to include the Q and survey those who identify as queer, there's no doubt the number would be even higher. As diverse LGBTQ representation and visibility in media continues to grow - from celebrities like Elliot Page and Demi Lovato sharing their stories about being trans and non-binary, to groundbreaking shows like Pose, Genera+ion, and Euphoria centering captivating LGBTQ narratives - LGBTQ youth are not only coming to terms with who they are at a younger age, but seemingly feel more comfortable than any generation before them to live openly and honestly as their authentic selves.

But this growing wave of visibility and acceptance of LGBTQ identities among youth hasn't come without its own set of challenges. This year, we are witnessing the most anti-LGBTQ legislative session on record, with over 250 anti-LGBTQ bills introduced in more than 30 state legislatures across the United States, according to the Human Rights Campaign. The majority of these bills target trans and non-binary youth by seeking to ban them from playing on school sports teams or making it a criminal offense for doctors to provide life-affirming health care to trans youth and their families.

In addition to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health of LGBTQ youth, the ongoing cycle of oppression of people of color in America - from the horrifying murders of Black Americans to the terrifying rise in hate crimes against Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities - continues to disproportionately impact LGBTQ youth of color. A recent study by the Trevor Project shows that half of all LGBTQ youth of color reported discrimination based on their race and/or ethnicity in the past year, including 67% of Black LGBTQ youth and 60% of AAPI LGBTQ youth.

In the face of these ongoing injustices, young LGBTQ people continue to be on the front lines, fighting back with one unified message: that they are unstoppable. That's why GLAAD is incredibly proud to present its second annual 20 Under 20 list: a diverse collection of exceptional young LGBTQ changemakers who are using media and activism to drive acceptance and equality forward. This year's 20 Under 20 list is presented by Google, with official sponsors UGG® and Shutterfly. For the second year in a row, GLAAD worked with Teen Vogue to exclusively reveal its 20 Under 20 list.

To launch this year's list, GLAAD partnered with Google and photographer Mayan Toledano to capture each honoree as their most authentic selves using the Google Pixel 5 phone. From megastar JoJo Siwa, to social media sensation Ve'ondre Mitchell, to trailblazing trans activist Stella Keating, GLAAD's 20 Under 20 list celebrates and honors the young LGBTQ people who are spearheading a new future, one where every LGBTQ person is visible, protected, and free to be who they are.

Photos captured on Google Pixel 5 by Mayan Toledano of Pixel's Creator Labs

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GLAAD's 20 Under 20: The LGBTQ Youth Shaping the Future

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Earlier this year, Gallup released a poll finding that about 1 in 6 U.S. adults in Generation Z identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, and/or transgender (LGBT). If you were to include the Q and survey those who identify as queer, there's no doubt the number would be even higher.

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The following feature appears in the April 2017 issue of NYLON.

Hundreds of New Yorkers crowded into the Brooklyn Museum on the evening of November 10, 2016, to find safety and solace. Donald Trump had just been elected president, and the BUFU and Yellow Jackets collectives, along with other groups, did what they do best-activated. The event, "Process/Mourn/Activate," converted the third-floor atrium into a space for organizing, and most importantly, healing.

BUFU (an acronym for "By Us, for Us") is a group that comprises Jazmin Jones, Tsige Tafesse, Katherine Tom, and Sonia Choi-four New York City artists and organizers facilitating the conversation on the sociopolitical relationship between black and Asian diasporas. They're here to foster solidarity by highlighting the lived experiences of these marginalized communities through telling their stories, on their terms. Much like their museum panel, BUFU itself is a reaction: "We're not whiz kids when it comes to promotion, outreach, research, or all the things that come with this project-we are not waiting to get degrees in this shit, or for someone to have permission to cover us," Jones says. "We also don't have anyone to answer to other than our own conscience or our own politics."

The collective's founding members-including the current roster plus a fifth, Jiun Kwon-first crossed paths in 2015 as college students with a shared interest in direct-action work, and decided to team up on a web documentary series project on the black-Asian discourse. One evening, Kwon had arranged for a screening of Mountains That Take Wing, a film featuring a conversation between black activist Angela Davis and Japanese-American activist Yuri Kochiyama. What happened afterward was one of the many revelations that fed into BUFU's vision. "I remember Jiun turning to me and being like, 'What do we ask, what do we do?'" Tafesse says. "It was a really challenging conversation, and from that we realized there's a need to develop a language around what was happening in that room. There are so many different barriers in terms of how we are racialized, and see each other, and connect to each other." Jones, Tafesse, Tom, Choi, and Kwon then began holding regular meetings that August. "We made the decision to not just whittle it down to a documentary," Jones recalls. So, the collective also began rooting their work in the community through events and gatherings.

When Kwon passed away suddenly in October 2015, the group was unsure if the project would continue without one of its core members. But BUFU's work soldiers on, holding Kwon's legacy and impact close. "Her spirit remains among us and within the heart of the project," according to the collective's website, where they recall their hike up Namsan Mountain, in Kwon's honor, when they filmed part of their documentary in South Korea.

By spring 2016, BUFU was ready to take their work to the next level. They'd traveled to Austin, Seattle, Los Angeles, and Japan to collect footage for the first season of their documentary series, self-funding every step of the way (a large part of their travel was made possible by Kwon's memorial fund). In June 2016, Tafesse, Tom, Jones, and Choi held programming out of a warehouse in Brooklyn's Clinton Hill neighborhood, converting the space into a venue for artists and organizers of color for a "month for black and Asian futurity." BUFU held workshops on oral history, hair, music, and gentrification, conversations and dinners, tea and coffee ceremonies, and parties-all centered on community and dialogue.

Their initiatives quickly gained recognition from various media outlets, but outside of these intimate moments, the work was, at times, overshadowed by the hype. "A lot of coverage of us in the media posits us as party girls," Jones explains. The group constantly struggles to navigate the commodification that comes with the double-edged sword of hypervisibility: "Sure, we're cute-but some of these stories single-handedly put us into a box," says Jones.

On a snowy evening in mid-February, a few months after the Brooklyn Museum gathering and a multi-collective "Scamming the Patriarchy" summit the following weekend, the group is posted up at a café in Brooklyn. It's also been about two weeks since half of the members traveled to Ethiopia for filming. In light of China's increasing manufacturing presence and quest for cheap labor, BUFU toured Chinese factories and interviewed locals to better understand Ethiopia and China's complex relationship and its affected communities. (And as Tafesse notes, factory higher-ups didn't seem to take them very seriously: "They thought we were these little girls running around with cameras.")

The aim was to dissect and document this "neocolonial presence"-and the answers were as complicated as one would imagine. Tafesse recalls visiting one of Ethiopia's largest cultural houses, and witnessing a showcase of Chinese song and dance. "In the middle of this survey of Ethiopian culture, a woman [we met earlier] sang a love song, and a song for Chairman Mao," Tafesse says. "I thought we were just going to be like, dealing with this neocolonial power in Ethiopia-but [the woman] had this really intimate relationship with this country."

"So many moments, like this one, were awkward and beautiful, all at once," Jones adds.

The documentary series, which is set to finish filming with visits to Jamaica and China (in the spring and summer of 2017, respectively), stresses BUFU's importance as a "pan-Asian, pan-black" movement. "We aren't just looking at East Asian and black American folks-this is what it means to zoom in and zoom out," Tom says. "Folks have also been doing this work for decades, around the world, and we want to acknowledge that. We don't want to be experts on what black-Asian solidarity is, but we're hoping, through our politics, to have an influence on what's going on globally. In light of what's happening politically in the world, how do we show up for each other in a way that extends beyond theory?"

The creators' own experiences often become part of their work's narrative-a subversive act in the conventional documentary world. "[Traditionally], the idea is to be behind the camera, to treat the subject like a spectacle," Jones, a filmmaker by craft, says. "Every step of this has been unlearning and questioning what it means to make a documentary series. And while we've even been hesitant, from the start, we've bled into it. We can't divorce ourselves from this. That's what it means to be an artist of color-the personal is political."

Now raising funds in preparation for a multi-collective summit in summer 2017 called "US," BUFU is doing impressive work, and on a large scale: "But when you step back and look at it, we're messy as fuck," Jones notes. "It's about learning how to take ownership of our own fuckups, but also making space for each other to be human." Tafesse offers the same advice to other queer femmes of color looking to organize. "This administration is certainly not waiting for us to figure it out, and they're moving very quickly," she says. "This is the moment to really figure this out and share tools. Don't wait for someone else to tell your story."

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The following feature appears in the April 2017 issue of NYLON. Hundreds of New Yorkers crowded into the Brooklyn Museum on the evening of November 10, 2016, to find safety and solace. Donald Trump had just been elected president, and the BUFU and Yellow Jackets collectives, along with other groups, did what they do best-activated.

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The politically controversial digital certifications confirming inoculation against the coronavirus could allow people to gather en masse.

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Get the facts about the pay gap for Black women.

Learn More

The pay gap by gender and race

The pay gap by age

Did you know?

The pay gap widens the wealth gap: how much Black women are worth or own. Shockingly, single Black women own less than 8 cents on the dollar compared to white men.¹¹

Did you know?

The pay gap is even worse for Black mothers, who are paid 48% less than white fathers.¹⁴

Black women deserve fair pay.
It's time to close the gap.

Footnotes

1. Jessica Mason, National Partnership for Women and Families, personal communication, September 2022. The data for women of different races and ethnicities is calculated including women who worked part time or part of the year. The number for all women is based only on women who worked all year long, all year round. When you include workers who worked part-time or part of the year, you get numbers that are more inclusive and accurate because they captures 33 million additional working women, including many lower-income workers who reduced their hours or worked part of 2020 due to the pandemic.

2. U.S. Census Bureau, "Current Population Survey: Wage and Salary Workers-People 25 years and older by Median Usual Weekly Earnings, Age, Race, Hispanic Origin, and Sex," accessed January 30, 2022, https://data.bls.gov/PDQWeb/le.

3. National Center for Education Statistics, "Table 302.60: Percentage of 18- to 24-year-olds enrolled in college, by level of institution and sex and race/ethnicity of the student: 1970 through 2019," Digest of Education Statistics (2020), https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d20/tables/dt20_302.60.asp?current=yes.

4. U.S. Census Bureau, "Current Population Survey: Wage and Salary Workers-People 25 years and older by Median Usual Weekly Earnings, Education Level, Race, Hispanic Origin, and Sex," accessed February 24, 2021, https://data.bls.gov/PDQWeb/le.

5. LeanIn.Org and McKinsey & Company, Women in the Workplace 2022 (October 2022), accessed February 24, 2021, womenintheworkplace.com.

6. The U.S. Census Bureau, "Current Population Survey, Annual Social and Economic (ASEC) Supplement: Table PINC-06: Wage and Salary Workers-People 15 Years Old and Over by Total Wage and Salary Income, Work Experience, Race, Hispanic Origin, and Sex," retrieved February 10, 2022, https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/income-poverty/cps-pinc/pinc-06.2019.html.

7. LeanIn.Org and McKinsey & Company, Women in the Workplace 2020, https://womenintheworkplace.com/.

8. LeanIn.Org and McKinsey & Company, Women in the Workplace 2019 (October 2019), unpublished data.

9. National Women's Law Center, "The Lifetime Wage Gap, State by State", (March 2021), https://nwlc.org/resources/the-lifetime-wage-gap-state-by-state/.

10. Ibid.

11. Daan Struyven, Gizelle George-Joseph, and Daniel Milo, "Black Womenomics: Investing in the Underinvested," Goldman Sachs, The Bigger Picture (March 9, 2021), accessed February 10, 2022, https://www.goldmansachs.com/insights/pages/black-womenomics-f/black-womenomics-report.pdf.

12. Julie Anderson, "Breadwinner Mothers by Race/Ethnicity and State," IWPR #Q079 (April 2020), accessed Feb 16, 2022, https://iwpr.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/QF-Breadwinner-Mothers-by-Race-FINAL-46.pdf. Note: Breadwinner mothers are defined as single mothers who head a household or partnered mothers who generate at least 40 percent of a household's joint income.

13. Ibid.

14. Jasmine Tucker, "The Wage Gap Shortchanges Mothers," National Women's Law Center (August 2022), https://nwlc.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Moms-EPD-8.30.2022.pdf.

15. LeanIn.Org and SurveyMonkey, "The coronavirus is a financial crisis for women" (April 2020), https://leanin.org/article/the-coronavirus-is-a-financial-crisis-for-women..

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