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Coming Out to the Streets

LGBTQ Youth Experiencing Homelessness
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2020

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Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) youth are disproportionately represented in the U.S. youth homelessness population. In Coming Out to the Streets, Brandon Andrew Robinson examines their lives.
 
Based on interviews and ethnographic fieldwork in central Texas, Coming Out to the Streets looks into the LGBTQ youth's lives before they experience homelessness—within their families, schools, and other institutions—and later when they navigate the streets, deal with police, and access shelters and other services. Through this documentation, Brandon Andrew Robinson shows how poverty and racial inequality shape the ways that the LGBTQ youth negotiate their gender and sexuality before and while they are experiencing homelessness. To address LGBTQ youth homelessness, Robinson contends that solutions must move beyond blaming families for rejecting their child. In highlighting the voices of the LGBTQ youth, Robinson calls for queer and trans liberation through systemic change.

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Contributor: Brandon Andrew Robinson Brandon Andrew Robinson is Assistant Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of California, Riverside and coauthor of Race and Sexuality.

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    Frontmatter

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    Contents

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    Acknowledgments

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    Introduction: “Coming Out to the Streets”

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    1. Reframing Family Rejection: Growing Up Poor and LGBTQ

    31
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    2. Queer Control Complex: The Punishing Production of LGBTQ Youth

    53
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    3. New Lavender Scare: Policing and the Criminalization of LGBTQ Youth Homelessness

    82
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    4. Queer Street Smarts: LGBTQ Youth Navigating Homelessness

    105
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    5. Respite, Resources, Rules, and Regulations: Homonormative Governmentality and LGBTQ Shelter Life

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    Conclusion: There’s No Place Like Home

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    Appendix: Compassionate Detachment and Being a Volunteer Researcher

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    Notes

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    References

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    Index

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December 10, 2020
eBook ISBN:
9780520971073
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