Excluding the queer unwanted: Perspectives from older LGBTQ+ adults in New Zealand

Title: Excluding the queer unwanted: Perspectives from older LGBTQ+ adults in New Zealand
Creator: Betts, David
Relation: Journal of Gay & Lesbian Social Services Vol. 33, Issue 4, p. 475-492
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10538720.2021.1898513
Publisher: Routledge
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2021
Description: This article focuses on the community connections of older people with diverse sexual, gender, and/or sex characteristics in New Zealand. Specifically, it is reporting on how access to social spaces is filtered through perceptions of who is welcome in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) spaces. Thirty-one qualitative semi-structured interviews were conducted with older adults (ages 60–80) who were part of LGBTQ+ communities. These interviews addressed the topics of social connection, wellbeing, and identity. The findings indicated that identity-based exclusion resulted in disconnection from LGBTQ+ social spaces, with participants reporting both active and passive actions that positioned these spaces for specific individuals, resulting in a group that has previously been described in research as the queer unwanted.
Subject: LGBTQ+ communities; New Zealand; older adults; queer unwanted; social spaces
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1438684
Identifier: uon:40688
Identifier: ISSN:1053-8720
Language: eng
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