Publisher's note / Jay Sennett and Gwyn Hulswit
Introduction / Sassafras Lowrey
Building a home: a mother's call to action / Judy Shepard
Dumpster diving, gay skinheads, boredom and violence: pestilential adventures on the streets of California / Tenzin
My new nuclear family: surviving the fallout / Philip J. Reeves
Sylvia's Place resident / Samantha Box
Stories from the streets / Cupid & Dija
Framing federal policy to benefit LGBTQ homeless youth / Richard Hooks Wayman
The Circus Project: getting youth off the ground / Jenn Cohen
Rewind / KJP
Sanctuary at the attic / Stephanie Mannis
Running to stand still / Sabine Tigerlily Vasco
Pride and joy: finding safe, affirming families for youth / Family Builders
Sylvia's Place residents / Samantha Box
the hayop ka! chronicles: a queer pin@y OUTcasted & in the streets / kay ulanday barrett
Why? / L. Wolf
Will exchange wisdom for shelter, food or love / Mx. Mirage
My days of judgment / Taylor L.
Sylvia's Place resident / Samantha Box
Tangled hair / Booh Edouardo
I used to be Daddy's girl / Nat Roslin
Sylvia's Place / Lucky S. Michaels
Reconnected: an interview with Anthony and Sassafras / Anthony
Eighteen, down and out (and back) / E.F. Schraeder
In their own voices: the youth who call Sylvia's Place home / Kenyatta, Bella, Etern!ty, Anonymous
Dishonoring the family / Tommi Avicolli Mecca
Letting go of the pain / Angie Guerra
P(ie)c(e)s / KestryI Cael
Coming out and coming home, or: you can choose your family / Anne Giedinghagen
The psychic cheesegrater: what I learned on the streets / Tenzin
Shifting my pack / Sassafras Lowrey
Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth: an epidemic of homelessness / Nick Ray
Sylvia's Place resident / Samantha Box
Afterword / Karen Staller, Ph.D.
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