'I was kicked out of the family home during lockdown for being LGBT'
'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 Credit: Getty Images “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.
Source: telegraph.co.uk