Meet Joseph Plaster and his new book Kids on the Street: Queer Kinship and Religion in San Francisco's Tenderloin. It's 7 Minutes in Book Heaven! Where we meet queer authors and talk with them about the new books they have coming out for us to love and cuddle up with.

What's Kids on the Street about? Joseph explores the informal support networks that enabled abandoned and runaway queer youth to survive in tenderloin districts across the United States. 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.

Buy Kids on the Street
Visit Duke University Press: https://www.dukeupress.edu/kids-on-the-street

Connect with Joseph Plaster
Twitter: @Jplaster3
Facebook: Joey Plaster
Website: https://www.josephplaster.com

Check out the film Song of Love (Un Chant d'Amour) that we chatted about
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043084/

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