For many people, creating a chosen family is a necessity — and a key to survival. And it can be especially important for queer people, who may be unhoused or rejected by their biological families.
San Francisco drag queen Juanita MORE! poses at the center of her chosen family. For many queer people, creating one can be a necessary key to surviving.San Francisco drag queen Juanita MORE! poses at the center of her chosen family. For many queer people, creating one can be a necessary key to surviving.
"I had this view of family that I should be not only completely loyal to the family that raised me, but that was it. That was family," she says. Marriage and family therapist, and sexologist, Lexx Brown-James says,"Creating chosen family and finding people who love them regardless of anything, and who accept them and celebrate them, are actually keys into surviving."
Jody says she made the intentional decision to pull away from some of her biological family, like her mom, as painful as that was; her mother wasn't that accepting of her LGBTQ children.
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