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

"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 begi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Plaster, Joseph, 1978- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2023.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.