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

Durham : Duke University Press, 2023.

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"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.

e-Duke books scholarly collection 2023. OCLC KB.

Print version: Plaster, Joseph, 1978- Kids on the street. Durham : Duke University Press, 2023

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March 01, 2023

Includes bibliographical references and index.