Notes

LGBT+ youth homelessness
- An estimated 40 percent of homeless youth identify as LGBTQ. These young people cite running away from home or being rejected by their families because of their LGBTQ status as the two most common reasons for being homeless, or at risk of becoming homeless.
- LGBT individuals experiencing homelessness are often at a heightened risk of violence, abuse, and exploitation compared with their heterosexual peers.
- The needs of Transgender youth are housing (28%) and The needs of LGBQ youth are housing (26%)
- In America, it is estimated that 1.6 million youth are homeless each year and that up to 40% of them identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender.
- LGBT youth are overrepresented in foster care, juvenile detention, and among homeless youth.
- Studies indicate that between 25% and 50% of homeless youth are LGBT and on the streets because of their sexual orientation or gender identity.

LGBT+ youth abuse (verbal and physical)
- LBGT+ youth are twice as likely as their peers to say they have been physically assaulted. kicked or shoved at.
- 26% of LGBT+ youth say their biggest problem are not feeling accepted by their family, trouble at school/bullying, and a fear to be out/open.
- Schools should be a young person’s primary center for learning, growing, and building a foundation for success in the world. Growing up and getting through high school can be challenging for any student, but LGBT youth too often face additional obstacles of harassment, abuse, and violence.
- Nearly a fifth of students are physically assaulted because of their sexual orientation and over a tenth because of their gender expression.
- About two-thirds of LGBT students reported having ever been sexually harassed (e.g., sexual remarks made, being touched inappropriately) in school in the past year.
- Studies have shown that LGBT students constantly received bigoted verbal abuse such as name-calling like homo, fag or sissy more than two dozen times per day
- During 2005 the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network (GLSEN) conducted a study concluding that appearance was the number one reason for bullying. The second most common reason was actual or assumed sexual orientation and gender identity. According to a 2007 study by GLSEN, 86 per cent of LGBT youth report being harassed at school. This ratio is very high when compared to to 27 per cent of all students being bullied at school, as reported by the National Center for Educational Statistics in 2013.
- 82% had problems during the previous year with bullying about sexual orientation.
- 44% experienced physical harassment
- 22% experienced stronger violence.
- 61% never reported the attacks.
- 31% said the school made no effort to respond (of those that did report attacks).

LGBT+ youth bullying and harassment in school
- LGBT students at schools with comprehensive policies on bullying and harrassment are much more likely to report harassment to school authorities who, in turn, were more likely to respond effectively.
- 9 in 10 LGBT+ youth say they are out to their close friends and 64% say they are out to their classmates.
- 92% OF LGBT+ youth say they hear negative messages about being LGBT+. The top sources are school, the Internet and their peers.
- About two-thirds (64%) of high school youth say they are out to their classmates.
- Reliable estimates indicate that between 4 and 10% of the population is gay, which means in a public school system of more than one million, like New York City’s, there are at least 40,000 to 100,000 gay students.
- LGBT students are twice as likely to say that they were not planning on completing high school or going on to college.
- The average GPA for students who were frequently physically harassed because of their sexual orientation was half a grade lower than that of other students.
- 64% felt unsafe at school due to sexual orientation.
- 44% felt unsafe at school due to gender identification.
- 32% did not go to school for at least one day because of feeling unsafe.
- GLSEN reports on one trans-gendered youth who sought to defend herself against bullies. She reported the bullying to the vice-principal who did nothing to stop the bullying, which had gone on for two years. When the school took no action, a fight broke out between her and three other girls. All the students received suspension, but the trans-gendered youth was the only one charged with criminal assault, even though the school said she was a victim in the incident.
- GLSEN statistics show that students who experience bullying feel depressed, anxious and may have other health problems. Students, mistakenly identified as LGBT by their peers, suffer just as much as LGBT students do. Bullied LGBT students, who feel their school is unsafe, get lower grades, have worse attendance records, and are more likely to drop out of school. LGBT students have a disproportional amount of disciplinary problems that keep them out of school and make up 15 per cent of those incarcerated in juvenile detention. It is no wonder that the suicide rates are higher due to all these negative influences.
- 6 in 10 LGBT students report feeling unsafe at school because of their sexual orientation.

LGBT+ youth in need of acceptance from their families and peers
- Half of gay males experience a negative parental reaction when they come out and in 26% of those cases the youth was thrown out of the home.
- LGBT youth who reported higher levels of family rejection during adolescence are three times more likely to use illegal drugs.
- Gay teens are 8.4 times more likely to report having attempted suicide and 5.9 times more likely to report high levels of depression compared with peers from families that reported no or low levels of family rejection.
- LGBT teenagers are two or three times more likely to attempt suicide than other teens.
- If the family of the LGBT youth does not accept them,they are eight times more likely to commit suicide than other teens.
- 42% of people who are LGBT report living in an unwelcoming environment.
- 80% of gay and lesbian youth report severe social isolation.
- In 2013, 92% of adults who are LGBT said they believe society had become more accepting of them than in the past 10 years.