Homelessness affects different segments of Toronto’s street youth population in distinct ways. Youth who self-identify as “Queer” –a political term used to describe individuals who are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transsexual, transgendered, two-spirited, or inter-sexed— are overrepresented among the street youth population in comparison to their numbers in the general population. For example, in 2004 CBC’s The Fifth Estate reported that street youth are much more likely to be queer (20-40%) than the general population (10%) (CBC News, The Fifth Estate, 2004). Another recent study on homeless and streetinvolved youth found that in Toronto 29.6% of street youth identified as “non-straight” and 2.7% as transgendered (Gaetz, 2004, p.433). In the United States, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Policy Institute’s report on The Epidemic of Homelessness experienced by queer youth, also found that sexual minorities are disproportionately represented among the homeless (Ray, 2006). This overrepresentation was similarly observed in our research. In our sample of 150 street-involved youth (75 males and 75 females aged 16-20) we found that 47 identified as other than heterosexual or straight, with 26.7% of males and 36% of females reporting a sexual orientation that fell under the umbrella term “queer”.