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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.
"Coming Out to the Streets is a timely, sharply argued, and beautifully written book that adds theoretical nuance and empirical heft to the literature on homelessness, LGBTQ youth, governmentality, and the social safety net."
"This book offers valuable insights for historians of homelessness and scholars of the contemporary American South for its archive of testimony, and its interdisciplinary analysis of how systemic racism, misogyny, patriarchy, and capitalism blend into an immobilizing force that shapes the lives of individuals."
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