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New Family Values

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The House of Black in Mississippi

In Mississippi there is a large population of people who come out to their parents and are thrown out of their households. They often end up meeting older people who are LGBTQ who take them in and they form a new kind of family as families. Malaysia Walker, the mother of the Jackson-Vranchip House of Black met her sense of what a family is when she walked into that house. She says: "I know my place at home, I know who I am with my immediate family because this is my immediate family now"

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