EDGE on the Net

Longtime LGBT advocate Cyndi Lauper has collaborated with HUD to help count D.C.’s homeless youth, and help provide the resources and support they desperately require.

DC Center’s Youth Working Group continues to focus on the challenges of bullying and homelessness that face the city’s LGBT youth.

After the Ali Forney Center’s Drop-In Center was destroyed by floodwaters from Hurricane Sandy, the community has come together to raise funds to rebuild it, including a Dec. 16 concert at XL nightclub.

Atlanta’s drag community came together on Nov. 9 for the Miss Originality pageant, raising critical funds for LGBT youth at Lost-N-Found, and support animals from PALS.

Following severe damage to its drop-in center for homeless LGBT youth due to Hurricane Sandy, the Ali Forney Center is hosting a Nov. 11 fundraiser at Industry in Hell’s Kitchen featuring Ally Sheedy and Mike Ruiz.

After helping prevent the Mayor’s planned $7 million in budget cuts to youth shelter funding, Carl Siciliano is honored as White House "Champion of Change." Siciliano heads Ali Forney Center, which was the city’s first LGBT teen homeless shelter.

On May 31, homeless LGBT youth advocates were among the many groups who protested at New York’s City Hall against Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s proposed budget cuts.

The number of Americans at risk of foreclosure is rising, reflecting the U.S. economy’s continued struggles.

Being gay and young turn out to be two major risk factors for homelessness: A new study shows that GLBT youth are four times more likely to be homeless than straight teens.

Comedian Tracy Morgan on Friday, June 17, met with homeless LGBT youth and the mother of a 20-year-old gay man who died in an anti-gay attack in 2007.