That was way more than a page, Joe! At any rate, I wasn't really satisfied with the numbers they gave-it seems likely to me, for a lot of reasons, that a high percentage of the homeless kids are LGBTQ, but I'd really like to see solid numbers from some kind of broad survey.

Statistics on homelessness come from the point-in-time count that HUD requires all providers who receive federal funding to make, but there there is no sexual preference info, and though the count asks questions about causes of homelessness, none of the options relate to LGBTQ issues.

I don't mean to be a wonk about this, but over the years, in a variety of different circumstances, I've encountered homeless adolescents, and I know that there are a great many of them. The thing is, they don't fit into the typical idea of "homeless" which tends toward "homeless shelter" families that the press love to write about around the holidays, and that notorious older "substance abuser/mentally ill" population. They are the forgotten of the forgotten, and they shouldn't be.