I grew up in San Diego and I know personally that this song is about the real-life, homeless young youth who hustle the downtown streets of San Diego city after being thrown out by their religiously conservative parents in places like Poway and Carlsbad in the northern parts of the county. To survive they get involved in drugs and prostitution. Estimates are that anywhere from 20 to 40 percent of all homeless youth are gay kids who were thrown out from otherwise good homes. It is all very sad. There was once a WB Channel 5 news segment on this, back in 2001 or 2002 I think. It was called "The Pavement is My Pillow". There's now a homeless youth shelter that was built downtown to house some of these youth called "The Storefront", but services to help these poor young people are still inadequate. The only way this problem will come to an end is for society to realize that homosexuality is not a sickness or a sin and simple part of who people really are. It all really saddens me and makes me want to cry every time I think about it. I could have very easily been one of those guys.
I grew up in San Diego and I know personally that this song is about the real-life, homeless young youth who hustle the downtown streets of San Diego city after being thrown out by their religiously conservative parents in places like Poway and Carlsbad in the northern parts of the county. To survive they get involved in drugs and prostitution. Estimates are that anywhere from 20 to 40 percent of all homeless youth are gay kids who were thrown out from otherwise good homes. It is all very sad. There was once a WB Channel 5 news segment on this, back in 2001 or 2002 I think. It was called "The Pavement is My Pillow". There's now a homeless youth shelter that was built downtown to house some of these youth called "The Storefront", but services to help these poor young people are still inadequate. The only way this problem will come to an end is for society to realize that homosexuality is not a sickness or a sin and simple part of who people really are. It all really saddens me and makes me want to cry every time I think about it. I could have very easily been one of those guys.