The city hipsters sipping expensive coffee and chatting on cellphones did not give a second look at the two young men cutting across a Hollywood courtyard on their way to bed down in a nearby park.
AJ, 23, and his boyfriend, Alex, 21, hide their blankets and duffel bags in bushes. They shower every morning at a drop-in center and pick out outfits from a closet full of used yet youthful attire.
“If I could be invisible, I would,” AJ said. “I feel ashamed to admit that I’m 
homeless.”
Every year, hundreds of gay youths end up alone on the streets of Los Angeles County, where they make up a disproportionate share of the at least 4,200 people under 25 who are homeless on any given day.
To read full article, click here.
Source: Alexandra Zavis, Los Angeles Times, December 12, 2010
Related posts:
- Washington Post chronicles nation’s homeless LGBT youth and efforts to help them
- Center for American Progress advocates for nat’l Runaway & Homeless Youth Act to focus on LBGT youth
- Huffington Post cites Obama’s Administration’s push to focus child welfare on the needs of homeless LGBT youth
- John Burton highlights importance of Edward II project to San Franciso’s vulnerable young adults in S.F. Examiner
- New America Media chronicles San Francisco’s often invisible black homeless youth
