Residents Describe NYC's Only LGBTQ+ Shelter As "A Nightmare" | Queer News Tonight
Channel: Queer News Tonight
Date: 2022-02-11

Named after transgender icon Marsha P. Johnson, Marsha’s House is the only shelter in the New York City Department of Homeless Services system dedicated to the LGBTQ community, which experiences disproportionately high rates of homelessness. The shelter has been plagued by lawsuits for everything from allegedly denying residents with service animals (against federal law), to security guards harassing residents on dating apps. Andrew Rinehults, a bisexual man from Baltimore who lived at Marsha’s House from January 2020 to April 2021, recalled both security and staff being indifferent to violence among residents. Rinehults said he once heard another resident get his jaw broken — “a clenching, spine-tingling sound” — and beg shelter workers for help.  Residents have also said they observed widespread substance abuse among shelter residents, including meth, heroin, cocaine, and a type of synthetic marijuana called K2. 

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