Carl Siciliano

When the actress died, she bequeathed a considerable sum to the Ali Forney Center, saying “This organization really is saving lives.”

The church’s leader wants all gays stoned to death and thinks Starbucks flavors its lattes with “gay semen.”

“Men who are fags with testicles will be carrying babies in their testicles and giving birth to them through their anus.”

NEW YORK — Homeless LGBT youth advocate Carl Siciliano, executive director of the Ali Forney Center, America’s largest shelter for homeless LGBT youth, is calling on Pope Francis to to lead the world’s religious communities in bringing an end to the “grave moral failure” by the Church to embrace LGBT youth and families.

NEW YORK — A major homeless drop-in center for LGBT youth in New York City has been badly damaged by Hurricane Sandy.

NEW YORK — The Ali Forney Center — a homeless shelter for LGBT youth in New York City — will receive $3.3 million from the city to renovate an East Village property, according to a statement released Monday.

The Ali Forney Center, the nation’s largest organization working on behalf of homeless LGBT youth, on Monday announced that longtime New York activists Frank Selvaggi and Bill Shea had donated $100,000 to the center to kick off its “Homeless for the Holidays” campaign, aimed at raising $1 million to increase the number of beds for homeless LGBT youth in New York City.

The gay rights movement has not been good about dealing with the issue of homeless gay youth, and depending on the study, somewhere between 30 and 40 percent of homeless youths identify as LGBT, reported National Public Radio, this past weekend.