...This chapter presents an ethnographic discourse analysis of several different homeless subcultures, with particular emphasis on homeless men in San Francisco, California. It argues that discourse analysis opens a path around social science’s interminable conflict between the concept of a self...

...This chapter explores how congregations of street dwellers in San Francisco, California separated into different subcultures and spaces, highlighting a dramatized semiotic divide between the Tenderloin, the geographic and symbolic center of the city’s street scene, and Dogpatch, a more remote...

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... protests San Francisco same sex wedding protest Proposition 8 In 2000, oregon lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender ( LGBT ) activists successfully defeated yet another antigay ballot measure sponsored by the local Religious Right. This particular ballot measure, the latest in a series...

...Verta Taylor, Katrina Kimport, Nella Van Dyke, and Ellen Andersen draw on interviews and a random survey of couples who married in San Francisco in 2004 to examine the impact of marriage equality activism on activists themselves. They show that the lesbian and gay couples who participated...

...Melanie Heath explores the deeply personal stories of Oklahoma couples who traveled to San Francisco to marry in 2004. She finds that rather than using marriage as a way to assimilate into dominant heterosexual culture, lesbian and gay couples viewed marrying as a political act to resist...

...Katrina Kimport Kimport analyzes wedding pictures of lesbians who married in San Francisco in 2004, arguing that such photos force the onlooker to read the women as a sexual couple, thus challenging deeply held assumptions about normative sex, gender, and sexuality. Bush George W California...

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...This chapter takes a look at the homeless men in San Francisco, California, to identify a spectrum of street discourses on the causes and character of homelessness. Taking up popular discourses of sin, sickness, and the failure of the social system, men on the street reworked, blended...

...This chapter takes a look at San Francisco’s lively and harmonious homeless subculture built around recycling, through which hundreds of homeless pros laid claim to old-fashioned blue-collar masculinity. Spending their days energetically collecting bottles and cans, these homeless men developed...

...This chapter takes a look at San Francisco’s homeless men living under the shelter system to assess their experience in more service-rich environments. Here, social workers and counselors tried to help men and women by providing a safe island for therapeutic intervention, but their successes were...

...This concluding chapter discusses the homelessness problem in the United States in general and in San Francisco in particular. Countries have adopted different strategies in response to global neoliberalism, but America’s bottom-line response to the poverty and despair of those abandoned...

...The present-day Cesar Chavez Street Freeway Interchange that passes over the Mission neighborhood in San Francisco was once a place of productivity where life grew and roots deepened under the name Crossroads Community (The Farm). Founded in 1974, The Farm...

...This chapter presents interviews with Filipino American DJs based in San Francisco, namely Rygar, Rey-Jun, Statistix, Celskiii, Tease, One Tyme, and Soup-a-Crunk, and describes the nature of their engagement with DJing. Filipino youth involvement within DJing makes sense in relation to the cultural...

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... of homeless men in San Francisco and analyzes the influence of the homelessness industry on the streets, in the shelters, and on public policy. The book shows some of the diverse ways that men on the street in San Francisco struggle for survival, autonomy, and self-respect. Drawing on five years of fieldwork...

...This book explores the lives of women in turn-of-the-century San Francisco. A period of transformation of both gender roles and American cities, it shows how changes in the city affected women’s ability to negotiate shifting gender norms as well as how women’s increasing use of the city played...

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... of motherhood Same sex marriage LGBT movement lesbian and gay couples queer theory post-gay identity anti-same sex marriage initiatives same sex marriage and the law same sex marriage protests San Francisco same sex wedding protest Proposition 8 Twenty years ago, an attorney specializing...