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In this latest addition to our Ten Reasons series, Stephen Blake Figura provides compelling evidence of why activists for LGBTQ-rights should make the homelessness of LGBTQ youth and the criminalization and incarceration of LGBTQ people of all ages a top priority.
-Co-editors Elizabeth Barajas-Roman & Betsy Hartmann
Stephen Figura is a recent graduate of Hampshire College currently living in Hadley, MA. Stephen’s undergraduate thesis, At the Crossroads of Violence: Responding to Intimate and State Violence Against Displaced LGBTQ Youth, examined violence against LGBTQ youth in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems. Stephen now works as a residential counselor at a group home for traumatized and emotionally disturbed youth in Northampton, MA.
