Growing up queer : kids and the remaking of LGBTQ identity /
Robertson, Mary Anna,
Growing up queer : kids and the remaking of LGBTQ identity / Mary Robertson. - New York : New York University Press, (c)2019. - 1 online resource (vii, 199 pages) - Critical perspectives on youth .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction: a whole lot of queer -- Welcome to spectrum: a place to be queer -- That makes me gay: not born that way -- Let's be trans: going beyond the gender binary -- Google knows everything: finding queer media -- It's going to be okay: queering the family -- Conclusion: the new normal isn't queer.
'Growing Up Queer' explores what it is like being young and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and/or queer (LGBTQ) in the United States today. Using interviews and ethnographic research conducted at an LGBTQ youth drop-in centre, it shows how young people understand their sexual and gender identities, their interest in queer media, and the role that family plays in their lives. The young people who participated in this research are among the first generation to embrace queer identities as kids and teens, and this text shows how both sexual and gender identities are formed through complicated, ambivalent processes, as opposed to the natural characteristics one is born with.
9781479807512
Sexual minority youth--United States.
Gay youth--United States.
Sexual minorities--Identity.
Gays--Identity.
Electronic Books.
HQ76 / .G769 2019 HQ76
Growing up queer : kids and the remaking of LGBTQ identity / Mary Robertson. - New York : New York University Press, (c)2019. - 1 online resource (vii, 199 pages) - Critical perspectives on youth .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction: a whole lot of queer -- Welcome to spectrum: a place to be queer -- That makes me gay: not born that way -- Let's be trans: going beyond the gender binary -- Google knows everything: finding queer media -- It's going to be okay: queering the family -- Conclusion: the new normal isn't queer.
'Growing Up Queer' explores what it is like being young and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and/or queer (LGBTQ) in the United States today. Using interviews and ethnographic research conducted at an LGBTQ youth drop-in centre, it shows how young people understand their sexual and gender identities, their interest in queer media, and the role that family plays in their lives. The young people who participated in this research are among the first generation to embrace queer identities as kids and teens, and this text shows how both sexual and gender identities are formed through complicated, ambivalent processes, as opposed to the natural characteristics one is born with.
9781479807512
Sexual minority youth--United States.
Gay youth--United States.
Sexual minorities--Identity.
Gays--Identity.
Electronic Books.
HQ76 / .G769 2019 HQ76