`Get out`: LGBTQ youth at disproportionate risk of homelessness during COVID
(WorldNews Health)

The dad in central Nassau had been rummaging through his transgender 22-year-old`s bedroom during the coronavirus pandemic`s peak and found a doctor`s instructions for taking testosterone. There was yelling. “Get out,” the dad said to A. “Fine.” Within hours, A. was homeless, subsisting on canned food and living an hour away, somewhere on Long Island in the woods. “They didn`t want me to transition, and they would never accept me as their son,” said A., who provided this account and spoke on the condition that only a first initial be published, for fear of further alienating the family. Cooped up in hostile homes for months during the pandemic and lockdown, LGBTQ youth on the Island have...