Slate.com features an article co-authored by Stephen Vider and David S. Byers, an adjunct lecturer and Ph.D. candidate at SSW. The authors use their knowledge of historical attitudes towards LGBTQ individuals in popular culture and psychoanalysis as a lens through which to explore depictions of queer youth--and hetero- and gender-normativity--in the television show The Fosters.
For more information, visit http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2015/02/18/the_fosters_on_abc_family_presents_a_fresh_look_at_queer_childhood.html