Transforming power with centering love in state-sponsored services for LGBTQ youth experiencing homelessness.
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Transforming power with centering love in state-sponsored services for LGBTQ youth experiencing homelessness.
Abstract
The disproportionate numbers of LGBTQ youth experiencing homelessness presents moral and ethical dilemmas, carries high emotional and social costs for those without safe, adequate housing, and impacts society at-large. This paper argues that rather than traditional, responses that perpetuate oppression, ostracization, and feelings of powerlessness experienced by young people at multiple intersections of marginalization, public service approaches can foster. The ballroom culture captured in the television series provides critical insight to creating systemic change and justice from a starting point of communal love and by rejecting the politics of domination in favor of the politics of love, these approaches reaffirm self-efficacy and agency, and ultimately lead toward justice.