Street careers: homelessness, drug use, and sex work among young men who have sex with men (YMSM)

By S. Lankenau, M. Clatts, Dorinda L. Welle, L. Goldsamt, M. Gwadz. 2005

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Homeless Youth: Characteristics, Contributing Factors, and Service Options (2010, background): “Additionally, engaging in sex work as a means of income and survival on the streets puts homeless youths at further risk for HIV ( Lankenau, Clatts, Welle, Goldsamt, & Gwadz, 2005 ).”
Transgender youth homelessness: Understanding programmatic barriers through the lens of cisgenderism (2015, background): “LGBT young people comprise between 20 and 40% of the approximately 1.6 million homeless youth in the United States (Durso & Gates, 2012; Kipke et al., 2007; Lankenau et al., 2005; Quintana et al., 2010; Van Leeuwen et al., 2006).”
Experiences of LGBTQ Youth, YMSM, and YWSW Engaged in Survival Sex (2015, background): “An earlier ethnographic study of YMSM who traded sex for money or material goods in New York City found that 9 out of 10 interviewed youth were homeless at the time they began trading sex (Lankenau et al. 2005).”