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Kids on the Street: Joseph Plaster in conversation with Hugh Ryan (in person only)
Join authors Joseph Plaster and Hugh Ryan as they discuss Kids on the Street: Queer Kinship and Religion in San Francisco’s Tenderloin, a hidden history of queer and trans street youth who, abandoned by family and society, forged street families, faith traditions, and mutual aid networks to survive in San Francisco’s Tenderloin.
Kids on the Street is the winner of The Publishing Triangle’s 2024 Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction, the Urban History Association’s Joe William Trotter, Jr. Book Prize for best first book in urban history, and the 2024 Oral History Association Book Award.
To reserve a copy of Kids on the Street (Duke University Press, February 24, 2023, paperback, $28.95) please write to us at [email protected] with “please reserve Kids on the Street for November 6 event” in the subject line.
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This event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center, 208 W. 13th St., NYC, 10011.
Registration is not required. Seating is first come, first served.
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Hugh Ryan is the author of When Brooklyn Was Queer, The Women’s House of Detention, and the memoir My Bad: A Personal History of the Queer 90s (and Beyond!), forthcoming in 2026.
Joseph Plaster is a queer public historian and author of Kids on the Street: Queer Kinship and Religion in San Francisco’s Tenderloin. He teaches and directs public humanities programs at Johns Hopkins University.
