International Journal of Sexuality and Gender Studies. This paper provides an introduction and overview for the papers in the special issue of this Journal devoted to the latter half of life among gay men, lesbians, and bisexuals. Key issues are highlighted in terms of their impact on gay, lesbian, and bisexual cultural communities: the impact of the large aging population of baby boomers; the significance of age as a social organizer; and the areas of research included in this special issue intimacy and relationships, HIV and AIDS among elders, and the identities and needs of those growing into middle and later life. Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Aging into the Twenty-First Century: An Overview and Introduction
Later Adulthood - The Health of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People - NCBI Bookshelf
They attribute the changes to a variety of factors, from people knowing and interacting with someone who is LGBT, to advocacy on their behalf by high-profile public figures, to LGBT adults raising families. At the same time, however, a new nationally representative survey of 1, LGBT adults offers testimony to the many ways they feel they have been stigmatized by society. Most who did tell a parent say that it was difficult, but relatively few say that it damaged their relationship. The survey finds that 12 is the median age at which lesbian, gay and bisexual adults first felt they might be something other than heterosexual or straight. For those who say they now know for sure that they are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender, that realization came at a median age of
Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Identities over the Lifespan
NCBI Bookshelf. The cohort of LGBT people currently in later life grew up and moved into adulthood in much less supportive environments than those experienced by younger cohorts. Before entering adulthood, the oldest of this cohort would have seen, in , the creation of an official diagnosis that listed homosexuality as a sociopathic personality disturbance Bayer, and watched Senator McCarthy include gay men and lesbians on his blacklist. As adults, this cohort witnessed routine harassment by authorities, as well as the Stonewall Rebellion in and the American Psychiatric Association's removal of homosexuality from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders in see Chapter 2 for a full historical overview.
Oxford Scholarship Online. This book is available as part of Oxford Scholarship Online - view abstracts and keywords at book and chapter level. Over the last fifteen years, psychological research regarding sexual orientation has seen explosive growth. In this book, Anthony R.