Lauper unveils report on LGBTQ youth homelessness
WEST HOLLYWOOD (AP) — Years before reaching pop music stardom, Cyndi Lauper was down on her luck, broke and homeless.
She found a job at a restaurant, but that didn’t pan out either and she ended up living on the streets in Vermont.
Lauper told her experience with homelessness, which came nearly a decade before she became a pop superstar in the early ‘80s, while unveiling a nationwide report on youth homelessness.
The interactive report ranks how states provide services such as housing and mental health for homeless youth based on a variety of criteria, including access to hormone therapy for transgender people and testing for sexually transmitted diseases.