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LGBT Older Adults Face Unique Challenges to Successful Aging, New Report Finds
New report highlights the barriers to access and makes recommendations for supporting this community
Denver, CO, May 25, 2017 — Today, the Movement Advancement Venture (MAP) and SAGE released a notify, Understanding Issues Facing LGBT Older Adults, which aims to increase awareness of the diverse needs of lesbian, male lover, bisexual, and gender diverse (LGBT) elders across the country. The report offers a comprehensive look into the experiences of LGBT elders, spotlighting the challenges they face across a wide range of topics from health care to financial security and society support, and their resilience in the face of these challenges.
As America’s population rapidly ages (the number of people over 65 will double by 2050) so too complete LGBT adults. Currently, there are more than 2.7 million LGBT adults aged 50 or older – nearly one third of all LGBT adults. Yet, in March 2017, the Trump administration aimed to leave out LGBT elders when his administration released a troubling recent draft of the National Survey of Older Americans Operate Participants (NSOAAP), a survey used to determine wh
Anti-LGBT Victimization in the Combined States
LGBT people experienced a higher rate of thoughtful violence, defined as rape or sexual assault, robbery, or aggravated assault, than non-LGBT people (53.7 vs. 8.5 per 1,000),including higher rates of violence involving a weapon (27.4 vs. 5.7 per 1,000)and stern violence resulting in injuries (21.3 vs. 2.4 per 22 LGBT people were also more likely to experience violent hate crimes (6.4 vs. 0.7 per 1,000).
Conclusion
Consistent with prior findings, our results show that compared with non-LGBT people, LGBT people have been subject to disparities in exposure to violence, including hate crimes.LGBT victims of violence are also more likely than non-LGBT people to experience attacks that are more violent and to suffer injuries because of these attacks. The curtailment and elimination of civil rights protections for LGBT people in the United States puts them at risk for increased victimization and hate crimes.
Methodology
The NCVS uses a stratified, multi-stage cluster sample of households in the Combined States that surveys individuals aged 12 years and older.The purpose of the NCVS is to document the prevalence and characteristics of viol
Successful Aging Among Older LGBTQIA+ People: Future Research and Implications
Introduction
As the world population continues to amplify, so does the number of older people. According to the United Nations' World Population Aging report (1), one in five people will be over 65 by the year 2050, providing greater visibility of the diversity among older people, particularly with respect to sexual orientation and gender identity. For instance, more than 39 million people in the U.S. are age 65 years or older including 2.4 million people who distinguish as lesbian, same-sex attracted bisexual, transgender, gender non-conforming, intersex, asexual and other (LGBTQIA+) (2). Since older people represent a growing demographic group, unused and important challenges around successful and dignified aging arise for those who belong to gender and or sexual minority groups.
As more inclusive policies are enacted in countries around the society to address the social and legal needs of older LGBTQIA+ people (3), the reality of this diverse collective of people will also become greater known, including accentuate factors due to the intersections of ageism, homophobia, biphobia, transphobia, racism, or poverty
New data: LGBT people across all demographics are at heightened risk of vicious victimization
A new state from the Bureau of Justice Statistics highlights just how common violent victimization is among women, LGB people, and trans people.
by Emily Widra, July 11, 2022
A modern publication from the Bureau of Justice Statistics, Violent Victimization by Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity, 2017-2020, supports the vast evidence we already have that LGBT people — and particularly young adults, people of color, women, and bisexual people — are at heightened risk of violent victimization compared to their straight and cisgender1 counterparts.
We already know that LGBTQ+ people are overrepresented at every stage of the criminal legal system. And the line between victim and perpetrator is often blurry; many people who commit violent crimes have also been victims of violence and trauma throughout their lives. This new data reinforces that the way to ruin this cycle is not through punishment and incarceration, but rather support for programs that prevent forceful victimization in the first place.
Defining violent victimization
The report is based on data from th
With anti-LGBTQ laws proliferating, older activists say history is repeating itself
Despite major progress in recent years in the fight for LGBTQ equality, older LGBTQ activists say the country is seeing increased political pushback against the LGBTQ communities, reminiscent of past anti-LGBTQ movements they lived through during the 20th century.
History repeating itself, is something of which they state everyone should be aware.
When Ellen Ensig-Brodsky, 89, first began embracing her self as a lesbian, she said meeting other women was done in secret.
"It was secretive, you were considered sick and mean and terrible -- you were a sick criminal to be gay," said Ensig-Brodsky.
She said the landscape for the LGBTQ collective has changed completely.
"During this period that I'm talking about, after the '80s, the '90s, there was an enormous amount of openness in the LGBT field that we never had before," she said. "I feel confident that the LGBT world is now very solidified and strong,"
Alston Green, 71, says he's tired of fighting efforts to turn help the clock on progress after so many decades of steps toward equality for