Here is an episode from actor Kate Moenning's project "My Address: A Look at Gay Youth Homelessness." There are several projects similar to this one that are listening and documenting the voices of queer youth who are both currently or were formerly homeless. In the video they discuss being "in the system" and what home means to them. I put up this specific video because the individuals, predominantly queer people of color, give their responses to questions like 'Why are LGBT children homeless?,' and as one teen, Jamila says "A lot of families, or people in general believe that for the problem to go away, the person needs to go away." The video shows that for the 7000 LGBTQ youth in New York City, "there are only 25 emergency shelter beds available."

'Coming out' to their families about their sexual identity has been the predominant reason that these youth have left or been kicked out of their homes and put into the system. They describe how their realities become unreliable, unaccustomed ones with an overall lack of comfortability.

"Arguably, lesbian and gay teenagers continue to be the single most unrepresented and under served population of young people in the United States. The issues that they face within a larger community, unfortunately still characterized by discrimination against adults, means that kids get it even worse."