Anbar’s situation is not unique. Since schools across the U.S. started to close in mid-March to help stem the spread of the coronavirus, LGBTQ advocates say a number of queer youth and young adults have lost crucial support systems and have been forced to self-isolate with unsupportive family members.
“They may have had to go back in the closet if they were out at school. If they had support from a GSA or an LGBTQ club or group at school, they don’t have that anymore,” said Ellen Kahn, senior director of programs and partnerships at the Human Rights Campaign, the country’s largest LGBTQ rights group.
Kahn said she’s particularly concerned about those “who are in overtly hostile environments,” saying, “It could put them at risk of physical or emotional abuse; it could force them out to the streets.”Danushi Fernando, the director of LGBTQ and gender resources at Vassar College in New York, said a number of students with whom she works “voiced their concerns” about returning home when the campus announced it would close last month.
"We are super aware that there are people who are not able to go back to their homes because either they’re not safe, or students aren’t out to their families,” she said.After discussing this situation with the university administration, Vassar opened up some dorms on a case-by-case basis to students who felt unsafe leaving.
But for some of those who did leave — thinking their departure would just be for an extended spring break — living back at their parents’ house has been uncomfortable or isolating.
Why is it that the public school system has become the support system for LBGTQ matters?
It’s not the 80s anymore .
Times are tough
Wow how selfish we're doing this for others to be safe.
Thinking of all the children saved by a school shooting death that live in the homes of Republicans.
Maybe some of the confusion with which they suffer as a result of the unseemly pressure foisted on them within the wildly activist, highly sexualized prison system that passes as public education might be alleviated. Maybe the influence of loving parents might actually help them.
NBC, relentlessly pushing the Gay Agenda.
If these kids are so fragile that they can't even sit at home , I don't know what to tell you.
*LGTBQ+ I fixed it. Your welcome.
So NBC promotes these gays to go outside to have gay parties and in the meantime to criticize these starving anti lockdown folks?
Self isolation is better then dying. Quit complaining
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