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About 15,000 youth in Chicago experience homelessness in a year, according to the Lakeview Action Coalition.

UCAN says, 20-42% of homeless youth are the street self-identity as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning.
Physical, verbal, emotional, and/or sexual abuse, substance abuse by a guardian, absence of a guardian, long term familial economic instability are common experiences [...]

Check out Affinity’s latest appearance on CAN-TV, with guests Bonnie Wade and P. Posey from UCAN’s LGBTQ Host Home Program. This month’s topic was youth homelessness.

From CAN-TV

Affinity is proud to be a community partner for StartOut’s screening of “Miss Representation,” the most important film you’ll see this year. Miss Representation is the documentary by Jennifer Siebel Newsom about how mainstream media contribute to the under-representation of women in positions of power and influence in America. All proceeds go to StartOut’s new [...]