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Family life pre-homelessness often consists of experiences of substance use within the family ( Kral, Molnar, Booth, & Watters, 1997 MacLean, Embry, & Cauce, 1999), chronic conflict ( Cochran, Stewart, Ginzler, & Cauce, 2002 Rew, 2008), and neglect, abuse, and victimization ( Rew, 2008 Tyler & Cauce, 2002). Regardless of sexual orientation, becoming homeless happens within difficult family and social environments. To elucidate the role of sexual orientation in the pathway to housing instability, this ethnographic study examined the life experiences of 14 homeless young gay and bisexual Latino men living in New York City and solicited the perspectives of 5 staff serving them at an LGBT homeless youth organization. The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Policy Institute and the National Coalition for the Homeless estimate that between 20% and 40% of all homeless youth identify as LGBT ( Ray, 2006). Over 1.5 million youths are homeless every year ( Toro, Dworsky, & Fowler, 2007), with sexual minority youth being over-represented in most geographic areas (e.g., Thompson, Maguin, & Pollio, 2003 Toro et al., 2007). The disproportionate number of homeless LGBT youth constitutes both a service and a research priority. These findings suggest the need to examine the accumulation of risks before disclosure exacerbates family conflict and increases their risk of homelessness. Nonetheless, most youths became homeless as a result of long-term processes of family disintegration in which normative adolescent development and disclosure of homosexuality exacerbated pre-existing conflict. Some youth became homeless after placement in state systems of care disrupted their social support systems while others after extreme family conflict over sexual orientation. Fieldwork included eighteen months of participant observations in public spaces and at a homeless LGBT youth organization in New York City, as well as formal semi-structured interviews with 14 Latino young men and 5 staff. This ethnographic study sought to elucidate the role of sexual orientation in the pathway to housing instability among young gay men.
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Despite the overrepresentation of LGBT youth among the homeless, the processes leading to their homelessness are understudied.