Sexuality and Gender Identity

Initial Questions to Consider

• How do people usually respond to my gender identity or sexuality?
• What does it feel like to experience rejection?

Houseless Youth Are Disproportionately LGBTQ+

• 40% of Homeless Youth are LBGTQ: What We Can Do – Melissa Moore – TEDx Talk
• Our Issue: LGBTQ Homeless Youth – True Colors United (organization that focuses on LGBTQ houseless youth)
• LGBT Homeless Youth (video – 4:23) – United Nations

Survival Sex and Human Trafficking

• LGBT Youth Homelessness and Survival Sex (video – 15:05) – Tiffany Graham – TEDx Talk
• Exchanging Sex for Survival – The Atlantic
• Responding to Youth Homelessness: A Key Strategy for Preventing Human Trafficking – National Network for Youth
• The Intersection of Human Trafficking and Homelessness – National Alliance to End Homelessness