Posted on July 21, 2015 by Lila Shapiro in The Huffington Post The Huffington Post, By Lila Shapiro Despite a slew of recent gay rights victories, advocates estimate that hundreds of thousands of LGBT teens around the country are still rejected by their families. A lot of these kids end up homeless in New York City, which has only about 100 beds dedicated to LGBT youth. At the Ali Forney Center, the largest agency dedicated to LGBT homeless youth in the country, about 1400 adolescents walk in looking for shelter every year, and there are about 150 young people on the center’s waiting list.
