![LGBTQ youth and young adults: An individual standing in the center of six people, all with their backs to the camera, holds in the air a large gay pride flag with stripes of red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple flag that symbolizes gay pride.](https://jjie.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/shutterstock_1736459822-140x140.jpg)
Litigation and innovation involving LGBTQ juveniles, a disproportionately larger group
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Tailor-made services are important for many justice-involved LGBTQ youth and young adults their advocates contend, because those individuals’ encounters with law enforcement, courts, correctional and other agencies often are in stark contrast to how their heterosexual peers navigate the justice system and society in general.