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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Homosex. 2015 Oct 26;63(5):601–632. doi: 10.1080/00918369.2015.1111108
Jeremy: I was living with her [grandmother], ever since I was a baby, like five or six years old, until sixteen, fifteen years old, and then she kicked me out.
Daniel: Your grandma? What did she say?
Jeremy: Because at that point, it was my birthday. Everybody got drunk. We was all drunk, screaming and hollering and everything. Then she start screaming. She called the cops on me and the cops kicked me out of the house.
Daniel: Oh, really? What did she say?
Jeremy: There's too many fags here. The cops said, “If you don't leave, we're going to get the lock up.”
Daniel: Where did you go?
Jeremy: I went to the shelter. Ali Forney, Covenant House, Promesa, Street Works, I'm into all the shelter system.