Kids on the street : queer kinship and religion in San Francisco's Tenderloin / Joseph Plaster.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Plaster, Joseph, 1978- author.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sexual minority youth--Social networks--California--San Francisco.

Sexual minority youth.

Street youth--Social networks--California--San Francisco.

Street youth.

Street youth--Religious life--California--San Francisco.

Marginality, Social--California--San Francisco.

Marginality, Social.

Sociology, Urban--California--San Francisco.

Sociology, Urban.

Tenderloin (San Francisco, Calif.)--Social conditions--20th century.

Tenderloin (San Francisco, Calif.).

LGBTQ+ youth.

LGBTQ+ people.

LGBTQ+ communities.

LGBTQ+ relationships.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 358 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2023.

System Details:

Mode of Access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

"In Kids on the Street Joseph Plaster explores the informal support networks that enabled abandoned and runaway queer youth to survive in tenderloin districts across the United States. Tracing the history of the downtown lodging house districts where marginally housed youth regularly lived beginning in the late 1800s, Plaster focuses on San Francisco's Tenderloin from the 1950s to the present. He draws on archival, ethnographic, oral history, and public humanities research to outline the queer kinship networks, religious practices, performative storytelling, and migratory patterns that allowed these kids to foster social support and mutual aid. He shows how they collectively and creatively managed the social trauma they experienced, in part by building relationships with johns, bartenders, hotel managers, bouncers, and other vice district denizens. By highlighting a politics where the marginal position of street kids is the basis for a moral economy of reciprocity, Plaster excavates a history of queer life that has been overshadowed by major narratives of gay progress and pride."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

A performance genealogy of US Tenderloins

Street churches

Urban reformers and Vanguard's mutual aid

Intervention 1. Vanguard revisited

The urban cowboy and the Irish immigrant

Polk Street's moral economies

Intervention 2. Polk Street stories.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Plaster, Joseph, 1978- Kids on the street.

ISBN:

9781478023586

1478023589

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.