SAGE has released a new study that focuses on several high-profile issues related to LGBTQ ageing. Their home page includes a link to the full report and Gay Voices at Huffington Post has an article calling attention to this major effort. My comment after the bump.
76 years have flown by in my life and I am ever so grateful for the calm that surrounds me in Minnesota. Ageism is a generic reality across many demographic scenarios these days, not just in variations on the theme of diversity in sexual orientations and/or practices.
It seems to me that life after 40 has rich potentials for those of us who escaped the AIDS epidemic but intergenerational stereotyping still displays widespread indifference to the hard-earned perspectives that long life experience can provide.
Peer group bonding is to be expected but this is largely horizontal and not vertical. These age-related stratifications are also a generic truth but in the realms of diverse sexuality, gender and the like, new social norms are still largely inchoate. A work in progress, to be sure, and not just for "our" crowd.