Kids on the street : queer kinship and religion in San Francisco's Tenderloin

Plaster, Joseph 1978- (author.).

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."--

Record details

ISBN: 9781478018957
ISBN: 9781478016311
ISBN: 147801895X
ISBN: 1478016310
ISBN: 9781478023586
ISBN: 1478023589
Physical Description: 1 online resource (ix, 358 pages) : illustrations
remote
Computer data.
Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 2023.

Content descriptions

General Note:	CatMonthString:january.23 Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.
Type of Computer File or Data Note:	Text (HTML), electronic book.
System Details Note:	Mode of access: Internet.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:	Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. Access restricted by subscription.
Issuing Body Note:	Made available online by JSTOR.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.