NYC's only designated shelter for queer adults is a 'nightmare' of misconduct and living conditions

Jha’asryel-Akquil Bishop, 27, stands on a street corner in New York City (Credit: Sunny Nagpaul)

For the last seven years, Jha’asryel-Akquil Bishop has called city shelters their home. 

Bishop lost their housing just one month after they immigrated to the United States from Guyana in 2016. They were living in Brooklyn with their uncle until they began experiencing domestic violence, which they said “forced me to move out.”