The Cost of Identity: Twiggy Garçon on LGBTQ+ youth homelessness, house-ballroom, and working on ‘Pose’
Twiggy Pucci Garçon, a choreographer for the FX show “Pose” and leader at True Colors United, explains how the house-ballroom community offers a home and empowerment for homeless LGBTQ+ youth.
About seven percent of the total youth population in the United States identifies as LGBTQ+, yet they make up a staggering 40 percent of the total US homeless youth population, aged 13-24.
We meet Romaine Leslie at Marsha's house, a homeless shelter for LGBTQ youth, and follow his journey through the shelter system.