'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 sex…
"Mary Robertson offers groundbreaking research on the first generation of young people to embrace their queer identities as children and adolescents. Drawing upon the voices and stories of young people themselves, she shows how today's LGBTQ-identified youth navigate queerness w…
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: t…
"Mary Robertson offers groundbreaking research on the first generation of young people to embrace their queer identities as children and adolescents. Drawing upon the voices and stories of young people themselves, she shows how today's LGBTQ-identified youth navigate queerness w…