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Getting Older: Envisaging LGBT ageing Seminar, 9th October, 2012

Outhouse.ie · 2012-09-20 17:04:53

As a LGBT community, we are getting older together. Despite the societal and attitudnal changes regarding sexual orientation and gender identity, older LGBT people remain vulnerable to maltreatment, isolation and negation. Many older LGBT people are of a generation where sexuality was not freely spoken of, and who never…

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As a LGBT community, we are getting older together. Despite the societal and attitudnal changes regarding sexual orientation and gender identity, older LGBT people remain vulnerable to maltreatment, isolation and negation. Many older LGBT people are of a generation where sexuality was not freely spoken of, and who never came out. And now, as older LGBT people, their invisibility is compounded. We need to make space to hear the stories and the wisdoms older LGBT people can pass to the next generations.

In the last few years some significant research into older LGBT people, and some community organising, has begun to develop. It is of the greatest importance that older LGBT people are not forced back into invisibility while other areas of the LGBT community strengthen. For older people specifically, LGBT community support services are virtually non-existent, and the response of mainstream support services can be ad hoc, and dependent on the good will of individuals. It is also time for us to focus mainstream service providers on the specific needs of older LGBT people.

As a community, it is time our attention and awareness of our older members increases substantially. It is time to create concrete community initiatives that bring the generations together and that promote active ageing.

This day-long seminar on 9 October, 2012, hosted by Outhouse, aims to:
1. Further expand awareness-raising of some of the realities and needs that older LGBT people experience.
2. Present support agencies’ current work and incluson of older LGBT people.
3. Support and encourage information sharing and the broadening of networks.

As 2012 is the European Year for Active Ageing and Solidarity between Generations, this seminar is timely, and we are delighted to invite you to attend.

Lunch and refreshments will be provided. There is no registration fee.

Places are limited (to 60), please RSVP to dil@outhouse.ie

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