ArticleJournal of aging studies2022
Harnessing progress: Gender, sexuality, and positive self-perceptions of aging in midlife.
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- Minority stress, community involvement, and cognitive decline in rural SGM older adults: A longitudinal SEM and growth curve approach.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2026Article
- Aging and perceiving aging together: couple synchrony in self-perceptions of aging and health.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2025Article
- Effects of Unequal Treatment, Verbal Harassment, and Physical Violence on Subjective Cognitive Health Among Middle-Aged and Older LGBTQ Adults: Variation by Type and Basis of Victimization.Annals of LGBTQ public and population health · 2025Article
- Sexual Orientation and Internalized Homophobia of Middle Aged and Older Gay and Lesbian Adults: The Role of Social Relationships.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2025Article
- "I Want to Grow Older With Dignity": Older LGBTQ+ Canadian Adults' Perceptions and Experiences of Aging.Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society · 2024Article
- Queer Aging: Older Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Adults' Visions of Late Life.Innovation in aging · 2023Article
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Abstract
Drawing on interviews, this article analyzes how lesbians, gay men, straight women, and straight men construct positive views of aging during midlife, a life course period when negative perceptions of aging are salient. Interviewees engaged in harnessing progress-a process of crafting personal aging narratives that emphasize growth and improvement-which helped them to feel positively about their own aging. All interviewees shared these progress narratives, but reports differed across gender and sexuality groups. Men's narratives focused on the wisdom they gained and how that made them more relevant to older and younger generations. Regarding the latter, straight men viewed their children as beneficiaries of their progress and gay men viewed younger LGBTQ people as beneficiaries. Women's progress narratives focused on self-improvement. Whereas straight women described becoming more self-reliant with age, lesbians described learning to stand up for themselves. Overall, findings reveal how gender and sexual identities-and the lifelong benefits and burdens that accompany those identities-influence how people create positive perceptions of aging.
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