TY  - BOOK
AU  - Robertson,Mary
TI  - Growing Up Queer: Kids and the Remaking of LGBTQ Identity 
T2  - Critical Perspectives on Youth
SN  - 9781479879601
AV  - HQ76.27.Y68 R63 2019eb
U1  - 306.7608350973 23
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - New York University Press, 
KW  - Gay youth
KW  - United States
KW  - Gays
KW  - Identity
KW  - Sexual minorities
KW  - Sexual minority youth
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBT Studies / Gay Studies
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - LGBT
KW  - LGBTQ identity
KW  - LGBTQ youth
KW  - LGBTQ
KW  - ethnography
KW  - gay-straight alliances
KW  - gender non-conforming
KW  - gender
KW  - heteronormativity
KW  - queer of color
KW  - queer orientation
KW  - queer theory
KW  - queer youth
KW  - queer
KW  - queerness
KW  - sexual identity
KW  - sexuality
KW  - sociology of sexualities
KW  - teenage sexuality
KW  - teens
KW  - youth centers
N1  - restricted access
N2  - LGBTQ kids reveal what it's like to be young and queer today Growing Up Queer explores the changing ways that young people are now becoming LGBT-identified in the US. Through interviews and three years of ethnographic research at an LGBTQ youth drop-in center, Mary Robertson focuses on the voices and stories of youths themselves in order to show 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 children and adolescents. This groundbreaking and timely consideration of queer identity demonstrates how sexual and gender identities are formed through complicated, ambivalent processes as opposed to being natural characteristics that one is born with. In addition to showing how youth understand their identities, Growing Up Queer describes how young people navigate queerness within a culture where being gay is the "new normal." Using Sara Ahmed's concept of queer orientation, Robertson argues that being queer is not just about one's sexual and/or gender identity, but is understood through intersecting identities including race, class, ability, and more. By showing how society accepts some kinds of LGBTQ-identified people while rejecting others, Growing Up Queer provides evidence of queerness as a site of social inequality. The book moves beyond an oversimplified examination of teenage sexuality and shows, through the voices of young people themselves, the exciting yet complicated terrain of queer adolescence
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ER  -