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I was kicked out of the family home during lockdown for being LGBT
The pandemic has led to a sharp rise in the number of young LGBT people left homeless by families who refuse to accept them
Almost a quarter of homeless young people identified as LGBT before the pandemic
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“I wish that I could have told my mum all about my boyfriend and been met with love and excitement,” says Jack, 17. “Instead I was thrown out.”
Jack was outed as gay last summer and word soon got round to his mum. “She absolutely lost it with me,” he recalls.
Some of Britain s top LGBT+ charities have voiced concern over the government s now wavering support for rough sleepers. (Stock photograph from Elements Envato)
Some of Britain’s top LGBT+ homeless charities have urged the government not to ditch a vital emergency housing scheme amid a third national lockdown.
As another lockdown paralyses England until at least mid-February, the government is yet to confirm if it will provide rough sleepers with shelter as part of its Everyone In scheme, as it did previously.
The emergency measures, first introduced in March 2020, saw the government require local councils in England and Wales to provide accommodation in budget hotels to every person living on the streets.