Larkin Street Stories: LGBT Homeless Youth

Up to one in five people under the age of 24 living on the street is questioning his or her sexuality. Learn how Toby and Loch provide guidance to this group in Larkin Street Stories.

Cyclogram produced twenty-two short-form day in the life videos for the “Street Stories” series for the Homelessness Resource Center and the Co-Occurring Homeless Activities Branch of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. We filmed a three-series arch in San Francisco, California with Larkin Street Youth Services on LGBT Youth and Homelessness.

Episodes 1–3 of Street Stories
Episode 1: Larkin Street Stories: The Homeless LGBT Experiencehttp://www.youtube.com/samhsa#p/c/7D65E37E2DB5B0C6/1/48mC89f6PgA
Episode 2: Larkin Street Stories: Dealing with Hate Speechhttp://www.youtube.com/samhsa#p/c/7D65E37E2DB5B0C6/0/eNIOqoHYHEo
Episode 3: Larkin Street Stories: Neither Nor: Transgendered Youthhttp://www.youtube.com/samhsa#p/c/7D65E37E2DB5B0C6/2/12AYYR3kMhQ

About Street Stories:
Produced for SAMSHA to provide professional development in the world of services for the homeless. As is our habit, we focused on the solution—the provider. We aimed to build a sense of pride in this line of work and to interest passing viewers in specific topics on homelessness in much the same way other pieces of entertainment increase interest in certain topics (for example, paleontology via Jurassic Park) but on a smaller niche audience level.

Each video focused on a facet of homelessness from the perspective of the provider. We covered issues such as te-entry from prison, cross-agency collaboration, relapse, relationships in treatment, physicians, and social entrepreneurism. Following the model of the docu-drama, we tried to present the focal characters in three dimensions—highlighting their professional lives but covering outside of work activities that help them keep their balance or influence their work.