1. WHY ETHNOGRAPHY Cindy Cruz, Ph.D. UC Santa Cruz

2.  43 youth between the ages of 14-21 interviewed and/or observed  Kipke and Iverson’s (1997) study of homeless youth in Los Angeles, found that “unaccompanied” youth make up between 4,800 and 10,000 of the homeless in any given night in Los Angeles County.  One third of the homeless adolescents identified as gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgendered.  Kipke, M. and Iverson, E. (1997). A Profile of Street Youth in Hollywood. AIDS Evaluation of Street Outreach Project, Division of Adolescent Medicine, Children’s Hospital, Los Angeles. 

3.  Researcher talking to a transgendered youth: “I saw a video yesterday in my class where one of the main actors looked like you if you were just a little older.”  “She must have been ugly,” said the youth.  “No,” said the researcher. “She was beautiful.”

4. From Peter Martyr’s 1555 The Decades of the New World  Balboa founde the house of this kynge infected with the most abominable and unnatural lechery. For he founde the kynge’s brother and many other younge men in womens apparel, smooth and effeminately decked, which by the report of such as dwelle about hym, he abused with preposterous venus. Of these abowte the number of 40, he commended to bee given for a pray to hi dogges.

5. Thank you  For any questions, feel free to email me at  ccruz3@ucsc.edu ccruz3@ucsc.edu  Cindy Cruz  UC Santa Cruz

6.  Without asking questions about race or gender or sexuality, we lose information about LGBTQ experiences  Invisible  Fail to account for the intersections of violence for women of color and LGBTQ youth