Making room

three decades of fighting for beds belonging and a safe place for LGBTQ youth

Making room

three decades of fighting for beds belonging and a safe place for LGBTQ youth
Carl Siciliano
Book - 2024

"Carl Siciliano met Ali Forney-a Black nonbinary teenager overflowing with life-in 1994 while working at a daytime center for homeless youth in New York City. Nineteen years old and driven from home, Forney was the heart of the community, known for infectious laughter, fierce loyalty to friends, and an unshakeable faith that "my God will love me for who I am." Then Forney was murdered, a moment of horror and devastation that exposed the brutality that teenagers like Forney faced in a city marked by gentrification, housing insecurity, and the onslaught of the AIDS epidemic. Motivated by Forney's spirit, Siciliano fought to create a home where unhoused teens could live and feel loved-bolstered by his own exclusion from the church as a gay Catholic man. This is Siciliano's story of mending hearts broken by displacement and rejection, including his own. Siciliano shares what he learned from Forney and thousands of other queer teens-wounded, brave, vibrant people who lived true to their inner experiences and created family under desperate circumstances-while he helped lead a movement that compelled New York City to invest millions of dollars in kids who'd been ignored for decades. Written with heart and profound insight, Making Room is a landmark personal narrative, bringing to life an untold chapter of LGBTQ history and testifying to the power of community, solidarity, and the human spirit"--

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Tác giả chính: Siciliano, Carl (Tác giả)
Định dạng: Sách
Ngôn ngữ:English
Được phát hành: New York : Convergent Books, an imprint of Random House, [2024]
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505 0 |a Prologue: Fathers and mothers -- Lives of the saints -- Catching the ghost -- Fidelity -- Failures -- Attention and generosity -- Longing and humiliation -- A meanness in this world -- Eyes to see -- Whitewashed graves -- Revelation -- Ruin -- Seeds of change -- The mothers of justice -- Collapse -- Alive -- All we need -- Home -- Damaged -- Disrupting the narrative -- Making coins -- Outside -- Breakthrough -- The holiday of the mega-divas -- A truck stop on I-94 -- The gift of tears -- Celebration -- A good haunting -- Epilogue: Near paradise -- Afterword. 
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