TY - BOOK AU - Robertson,Mary Anna TI - Growing up queer: kids and the remaking of LGBTQ identity T2 - Critical perspectives on youth SN - 9781479807512 AV - HQ76 .G769 2019 PY - 2019/// CY - New York PB - New York University Press KW - Sexual minority youth KW - United States KW - Gay youth KW - Sexual minorities KW - Identity KW - Gays KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; 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; 2; b N2 - '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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1789430&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -