Housing for LGBT Older Adults - AARP

Housing for LGBT Older Adults - AARP: Older adults who are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender often age alone. As the first generation to be open about their sexuality and united around the gay rights movement, many are estranged from family and never had or have lost partners.

Older, Senior, Aged, Elderly. You Name It, We Can't Escape Ageism.

GeriPal - Geriatrics and Palliative Care Blog: Descriptive terms for older people: older is in an...: "Never be the first to use a new descriptive term for older people nor the last to give up an old one."   This is the advice ...

Take a listen: Queer Aging Interview with Out Chicago

The segment begins @ 20 min -- Thank you, Chicago's Progressive Talk and Scott Duff @ Out Chicago OUT CHICAGO w/ Scott Duff 09.18.16 

A Visual Synopsis of Queer Aging

Take a look -- a visual synopsis of Queer Aging: The Gayby Boomers and a New Frontier for Gerontology.

A Niche, Demand, and a New Boom? But Can we Afford it?

 

Marketplace just published this feature, titled Niche in elder care: assisted living for LGBT seniors, on Stonewall Gardens in Palm Springs-- a new assisted living facility for LGBT seniors. The facilities, amenities, and, of course, location look fantastic. But what the piece does not tell you is the price tag: minimum monthly rate for a room: $2850 plus additional fees for special needs. 

Oder it now! Queer Aging is Out

 I'm holding now the advance copies of Queer Aging! It looks fantastic.
Get yours @ Amazon. I'd love to see your own review --even one line-- on Amazon.

Queer Aging: The Gayby Boomers and a New Frontier for Gerontology

Queer Aging, the book, is now available for pre-order at 30% discount -- check it our here: Queer Aging at Oxford Univ Press.

As the first generation of gay men enters its autumn years, these men's responses to the physical and emotional tolls of aging promise to be as revolutionary as their advances in AIDS and civil rights activism. Older gay men's approaches to friendship, caregiving, romantic and sexual relationships, illness, and bereavement is upending conventional wisdom regarding the aging process, LGBTQ communities, and the entire field of gerontology.

• An innovative new work that examines the aging of gay men through 11 first-person accounts
• Interviews with racially and economically diverse older gay men offer unprecedented breadth of account and perspective
• Includes theoretical and historical framework for engaging with subjects' first-person narratives
• Ideal text for undergraduate, masters, and doctoral level courses in sociology, American history, LGBTQ studies, gerontology, African American and Latino studies, and social work
• Valuable resource for health professionals who serve LGBTQ communities and communities and color and friends, family, and caregivers of older gay men
  

  Table of Contents

  Preface
   
  1: Introduction: Queering Gerontology
  2: Stan:"If I'm left, then I have to be the best little gay boy ever"
  3: Anthony: " It has to be something else to this"
  4: Marvin: "I learned very early that it's not just about being gay"
  5: Robert: "I'm a pusher and I don't like to hear the word 'no'"
  6: Ramiro: "My family is really my gay friends"
  7: Grand: "I am a humanitarian"
  8: Charlie:"...being older and being by yourself"
  9: Adam:"...age is just a number. I don't necessarily put much stock in it"
  10: Jesse:"I am a chameleon. I adapt to whatever you throw me into"
  11: Louis: "I'm always meeting the underdog people"
  12: Jimmy: "The party came to a crashing end"
  13: The Praxis of Queer Gerontology