Coming out to the streets : LGBTQ youth experiencing homelessness / Brandon Andrew Robinson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Robinson, Brandon Andrew, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sexual minority youth--Texas.

Sexual minority youth.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2020]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction : "coming out to the streets"

Reframing family rejection : growing up poor and LGBTQ

Queer control complex : the punishing production of LGBTQ youth

New lavender scare : policing and the criminalization of LGBTQ youth homelessness

Queer street smarts : LGBTQ youth navigating homelessness

Respite, resources, rules, and regulations: homonormative governmentality and LGBTQ shelter life

Conclusion : there's no place like home

Appendix. Compassionate detachment : on being a volunteer researcher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520971073

0520971078

OCLC:

1156431820