Coming Out to the Streets

LGBTQ Youth Experiencing Homelessness
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-520-29926-9
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 250 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 499 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Robinson, Brandon Andrew

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies: Homosexualität, LGBTQ+
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Altersgruppen Kinder- und Jugendsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction: "Coming Out to the Streets"
1. Reframing Family Rejection: Growing Up Poor and LGBTQ
2. Queer Control Complex: The Punishing Production of LGBTQ Youth
3. New Lavender Scare: Policing and the Criminalization of LGBTQ Youth Homelessness
4. Queer Street Smarts: LGBTQ Youth Navigating Homelessness
5. Respite, Resources, Rules, and Regulations: Homonormative Governmentality and LGBTQ Shelter Life
Conclusion: There's No Place Like Home

Appendix: Compassionate Detachment and Being a Volunteer Researcher
Notes
References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

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