Gay Grows Up

An Interpretive Study on Aging Metaphors and Queer Identity

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3650366
AutoresRagan Cooper Fox, Ragan Fox (California State University, Long Beach, autor de correspondencia)
Año2007
Volumen52
Número3-4
Páginas33-61
Fecha de publicación2007-05-15
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Homosexuality (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0091-8369 • E-ISSN: 1540-3602
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1300/j082v52n03_03
PMID17594971
OpenAlexW1596790553
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas22
Referencias citadas36

This study is based upon qualitative research conducted with the Phoenix chapter of the Prime Timers, a social organization that offers older men in the gay community a space to communicate their general needs and desires. Using data collected through participant observation and informant interviews, the research demonstrates the ways in which the group's affiliates respond to queer sensibilities. The analysis argues that intergenerational communication is fettered by age stereotypes that generate communicative boundaries between young and old members of the gay community. The report then suggests that age-based breakdowns in communication prevalent in the gay community are further advanced by a difference in intergenerational approaches to survival

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