Advocates say the closures will have a devastating impact on the queer community's most vulnerable members.
NEW YORK, March 23 - The corona virus is causing the closure of homeless centers across the United States, putting LGBT+ people without housing at increased risk of suicide, health complications or hate crimes, according to homelessness experts.
There are currently no estimates on the exact number of shelters closed in recent weeks due to the coronavirus outbreak. “When things like this happens, it could really take our lives,” added Smith, who has been in a homeless-at-risk program for LGBT+ youth since last September. “If you’re worried about getting sick and being around people, you’re not going to want people to stay at your house,” Sprowal told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in a phone interview.MaDonna Land, program director of Tony’s Place, an LGBT+ homeless drop-in center in Houston, Texas, which has temporarily closed, voiced concerns that the pandemic will exacerbate the risk of physical and sexual assaults on LGBT+ homeless.
Campaigners said services for homeless LGBT+ people would also suffer as options for shelter dwindled, and this could impact access to essential medication, such as HIV treatment. “It’s not that there are new problems emerging - it’s that this pandemic has come to throw gasoline on the crises we already had,” said Orue.
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