Homeless Youth: Any Given Tuesday
A short film from the Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Center. Gay Star News recaps:
The L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center is the only organization in Los Angeles dedicated to providing these kids with food, clothing, medical care and a warm bed. They offer these young people, kicked out by their parents for being LGBT, the help they need to get off the streets and make it on their own. Writer/director Trent Kendrick and producer Michael Fossat were so inspired and touched by a tour of The Center that they developed and produced a short film called Any Given Tuesday. The film dramatizes a scenario that is all too real: parents find out son is gay and immediately kick him out of the house. He ends up on the streets and turns to prostitution and drugs and considers suicide. The filmmakers have some star power to help drive home the point: Elton John and spouse David Furnish, actors Jamie Foxx and James Woods, television journalist Lisa Ling and reality TV stars Lisa Vanderpump and Bruno Tonioli.
Labels: homelessness, LA Gay and Lesbian Center, LGBT youth