Thursday, November 21, 2024 3pm to 5:30pm
About this Event
1345 Circle Park Drive, Knoxville, TN
https://sustainability.utk.edu/initiatives/free-store/ ##freestoreutkIn order to help bring awareness to hunger and homelesness the Free Store will be hosting a movie that shares the story of those impacted.
Movie : A Road to Home (PPR)
Imagine yourself 18 years old wandering city streets without a place to go to sleep or eat or shelter from the cold. Imagine you’re homeless because your parents kicked you out when they discovered you are gay or transgender.
This is the subject of A Road to Home, which follows 6 LGBT youth through New York City as they learn to survive in the streets, then struggle to find beds, jobs, and some sense of purpose and direction for their lives. Four have grown up in poverty, two not. Five are people of color, one not. All have been rejected. Their lives typify the experience of the 500,000 homeless youth on American streets every night, 40% of them LGBT.