From Pink News: http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2012/06/26/video-cyndi-lauper-launches-organisation-for-homeless-lgbt-youth-in-the-us/
by Staff Writer, PinkNews.co.uk
26 June 2012
26 June 2012
Cyndi
Lauper has launched a new project in the US aimed at empowering and
advocating on behalf of homeless gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender
youth, and raising awareness of the problems they face.
The Forty
to None Project was launched as a result of the disproportionately high
number of LGBT youth in the estimated 500,000 to 1.6 million young
people in the US who are homeless or runaways.
The project said up
to four in ten of those are gay, bisexual or transgender. As its name
suggests, it aims to reduce the percentage of homeless youths who are
LGBT from forty to zero.
Lauper said: “For far too long gay and
transgender youth who are experiencing homelessness have not received
the attention, resources and support that they desperately require.
“As
the first national organization that works solely to address the needs
of homeless gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender youth, the Forty to
None Project will help fill that void and address the challenges
experienced by this long-ignored, but important part of our society. All
of us must join together to stand with America’s next generation so
that they can stand on their own.”
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