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THE IMPACTS OF LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANS (LGBT) LIFE COURSES AND IDENTITIES IN LATER LIFE

2017; University of Oxford; Volume: 1; Issue: suppl_1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1093/geroni/igx004.269

2399-5300

Kathryn Almack, Gloria Gutman,

Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies

Previous research has shown that older lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people have very diverse life courses. Some have lived outwardly conventional lives while others have lived more unconventional ones. It has also been shown that older LGBT people use (and do not use) sexual and gender identity labels very differently in different historical, cultural and geographical locations and at different stages of their lives. The papers in this symposium explore some of the impacts of these diverse life courses and identities in later life, in order to contribute to more nuanced and less homogenised ways of understanding LGBT older people’s experiences and needs. Fredriksen-Goldsen’s paper is a systematic review and narrative analysis LGBT ageing studies spanning 25 years, showing the tension between individualized and interconnected identities for LGBT ageing. Kong’s paper explores some of the ways in which the identities and lives of older gay men living in Hong Kong were affected by participation in a research project, demonstrating how this become a site for the construction of new collective identities. King’s paper examines how the housing experiences, concerns and preferences of older LGBT people are intersected and complicated by questions of identity with significant implications for policy and practice. Meanwhile, Jones’ paper compares the experiences of older people with bisexual relationship histories who do and do not identify as bisexual, in order to add to our understanding of the contextually specific way in which identities are used, and the effects this may have in later life.