ey are really affected by, feel useless or helplessness. LGBTQ youth people are born and raised into all types of families, including those who are poor. LGBTQ youth face the same socio-economic challenges that any other people will face. They also will encounter their unique obstacles because of their sexual orientation and gender identity. This can include a higher risk of being homeless when they are young, since they don't have a place to go if they get kicked out of their houses, harassment and discrimination that will find at school, streets and workplace. For example, a new shelter for homeless queer youth just opened in San Francisco; thousands of gay and bisexual men with HIV live on disability checks of less than $700 a month in
