Petition Create Government Funded LGBTQ+ Homeless Shelters Across the UK

The LGBTQ+ young people of the UK who are thrown out of their own homes have nowhere to go except homeless shelters where they could be just as at risk from homophobia and/or transphobia as in their homes
This petition calls on the government to take action to protect the LGBTQ+ community of the UK

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24% of homeless young people identify as LGBTQ+ (around 1 in 4).
(www.akt.org.uk)

There is just one permanent LGBTQ+ shelter in the UK.
(https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2018/07/06/the-uk-is-set-to-gets-its-first-permanent-lgbt-homeless-shelter/)

This petition closed early because of a General Election Find out more on the Petitions Committee website

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Date closed 6 November 2019
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