Video by Clare Trapasso.
At Sylvia’s Place, New York City’s only emergency shelter for homeless lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth, the price of admission is having no other place to go.
Many of the residents have graduated from foster care and detention centers with histories of violence and psychological and behavioral disorders. Few have jobs or high school diplomas. Many are H.I.V. positive and are on the streets doing sex work. But within Sylvia’s Place, a shelter that feels more like a gay slumber party staffed by college professors and ex-convicts, no gay youth is turned away.
Homeless in New York City 