SOCIOLOGY/ANTHROPOLOGY//
SOCIOLOGIE/ANTHROPOLOGIE:
AGING / LES GAIS ET LES
LESBIENNES PLUS ÂGÉ(E)S
The Web site of the Centre carries a page of links to research regarding queers and
aging,at www.the519.org/spn/researchlgbtt.html (viewed November 24/08).
Note that the Centre’s home page is also listed in
INTERNET RESOURCES section of this bibliography.
Adin, Emilie K.
“Needs Assessment for Aging Lesbians: Community-Based Research.”
Kinesis, March 2000, p. 11.
Concerning
Anderson, Carolyn Ann.
“The Voices of Older Lesbian Women: An Oral History.”
Ph.D. dissertation,
(265 p.; ISBN 97806126485010)
“…provided a forum for fifteen lesbian women over 47 years of
age to share their
experiences of living in
1960’s and 1970’s….” –from abstract, ProQuest Dissertations &
Theses, ProQuest document ID 726115211; Publication no.
AAT NQ64850.
NOTE: This work is listed in earlier Gay Canada editions with a
spelling error. In the title, the second word should be “Voices”
(in the plural, as given above). The record appears only once in the
bibliography, in the SOCIOLOGY – AGING section.
Auger, Jeanette A.
“Living in the Margins: Lesbian Aging.” Canadian Woman Studies 12(2)
(Winter 1992): 80-84.
Auger, Jeanette A.,
1945-
Passing Through: The
End-of-life Decisions of Lesbians and Gay Men.
(111 p.; ISBN 1552661172)
Bielski, Zosia.
“Gay Retirees: The Next Big Untapped Target Market?” Globe and Mail,
June 19, 2009, p. L3.
Mention of CARP, Vivat Group, and Maison Urbaine/Urban Home; etc.
Brotman,
The Health and Social Service Needs of Gay and Lesbian Seniors and
Their
Families: An Exploration in Three Canadian
Cities = Les Besoins en santé et
services sociaux des aîné(e)s gais et
lesbiennes et de leurs familles : un regard sur
trois villes canadiennes. Montreal : McGill Project
Interaction, Gay & Lesbian
Aging Research Project, [2006?].
See Web site: http://www.mcgill.ca/interaction/aging/ (viewed Oct. 14,
2008).
Follow English and French links to the Executive Summary (or
Rapport synthèse) and other hyperlinks.
Gulliver, below in this section, refers to the study in her Xtra! news report.
Project Interaction is
an initiative of the
Social Work.
SEE ALSO the AMICUS record no. 32927331, following, under Brotman,
Shari L., et al., which would appear to be a print version of the French-
language Rapport synthèse.
User
might also see Brotman,
Gerontologist, referenced below.
Brotman,
Les besoins en santé et services sociaux des
aînés gais et lesbiennes et de leurs
familles
au Canada : rapport synthèse.
Montréal : Université McGill, École de
service
social, 2006.
(19 p.)
Ref. : AMICUS catalogue record no. 32927331, which notes:
“Publ. aussi en version électronique.”
SEE ALSO electronic reference entry, above in this section at
heading: Brotman,
Brotman,
“Coming Out to Care: Caregivers of
Gay and Lesbian Seniors in
Gerontologist 47(4)(August 2007): 490-503.
Methodology involved “open-ended interviews…with 17 caregivers
living in three
different cities across
Ref.: ERIC document no. EJ 774999.
See also the Brotman and Ryan electronic reference, The Health and
Social Service Needs…, above.
Brotman,
“Health and Social Service Needs of Gay and Lesbian Elders and Their Families
in
Cassidy, David, and Willey, Lorna.
“Lesbians and Gay Men
over 60: Where Are They?” Intervention [Montréal]
87
(Jan. 1991): 72-79.
Chamberland,
Line.
“L’Adaptation
des services liés à l’hébergement et/ou au maintien à domicile
aux
besoins et aux réalites des lesbiennes âgées : rapport préliminaire.”
Par
Line Chamberland avec la collaboration avec Louise Brossard et Diane
Heffernan. Décembre 2001. (34p.)
Viewed
in PDF on
http://bv.cdeacf.ca/documents/PDF/2002_04_0019.pdf
Note: extensive bibliography of French and English works in Annexe 1,
pp. 24-31.
Chamberland,
Line.
“
‘Plus on vieillit, moins ça paraît’ : femmes agées, lesbiennes invisibles.”
Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health 22(2) (Fall 2003) : 85-103.
Ref.: CBCA index.
Chamberland,
Line, et Paquin, Johanne.
Le
défi de l’adaptation des services résidentiels aux besoins des lesbiennes
âgées. Montréal : ARIR : UQAM :
Réseau des lesbiennes du Québec, [2005?].
(116 p.)
Ref. : AMICUS catalogue record no. 32937911, which notes the following
on cover: “Vieillir en étant
soi-même. ”
SEE ALSO their article “Vieillir en étant
soi-même” in
Canadian Woman Studies 24 (2-3) (Winter-Spring 2005): 57-58.
Darra, Irene.
“Caring for Gay
Oldsters.” Xtra! [
known.
Electronic version of article viewed May 9, 2005. Discussion around
Mosaic
Midtown gay/lesbian retirement residences in
Because of dearth of Canadian material on gay aging, an exception
was made in including here a citation to a gay periodical article.
Gai Écoute
(Association).
Commission
de la culture: mémoire présenté par Gai Écoute et la Fondation
Émergence :
Rapport sur la mise en œuvre de la Loi sur les aînés 1999-2004.
Montréal :
Gai Écoute : Fondation Émergence, [2006].
(10 p.)
Ref. : AMICUS catalogue record no. 33415856.
Gallagher, Karen A.
“Centering the Margins: What Can Be Learned from Listening to the Voices
of Lesbians over 55?” M.S.W. thesis,
(microfiche)
Ref.:
Also cited in Chamberland, L’adaptation…, listed above in this section.
Grube, John.
“Natives & Settlers:
An Ethnographic Note on Early Interaction of Older
Homosexual Men with
Younger Gay Liberationists.” Journal
of
Homosexuality 20
(3/4) (1990): pagination not known.
Article
with same author and title in:
Gay
Midlife and Maturity, pp. 119-135.
Edited by John A. Lee.
Concerns,
at least in part, intergenerational issues in
Gulliver, Tanya.
“Speaking from Experience: 519
[Community Centre,
for Queer Seniors Speakers
Bureau.” Xtra! [
Article notes that “[t]he 519 has received $25,000 from the federal
New Horizons for Seniors Program to recruit and train a group of 10 to 15
older queers to form Speaking Out with Pride” and that studies
indicate “older queer adults face discrimination in both housing and
healthcare.”
Kemsley, Hillary.
“Aging Homosexual
Couples Face Special Problems.” Ottawa
Citizen,
February 15, 1993, p. B2.
“Kick-Starting Retirement Homes for Crones & Old Boys; You Want It, You
Gotta Pay for It.” Xtra!, March 8, 2001, p. 13.
Lee, John A.
“Invisible Men:
(Spring 1989): 79-97.
Lee, John A.
“What Can Homosexual Aging Studies Contribute to Theories of Aging?”
Journal of Homosexuality 13(4) (1987): 43-71.
Lee, John Alan, ed.
Gay Midlife and
Maturity.
(233 p.; ISBN 1560240288; 0918393809)
“Was simultaneously issued by Haworth Press, Inc., under the same
title, as a special issue of the Journal of Homosexuality, volume 20,
numbers 3 / 4, 1990” – Toronto Public Library catalogue note.
Several of Lee’s earlier works are listed in the earlier Homosexuality
in Canada
bibliographies.
McGeough,
Kristina.
“The Experience of Long-term Care for Gay and Lesbian Elders.”
M.Sw. research report,
(ca. 48 p.)
Ref.: AMICUS catalogue record no. 34096482.
McKee, Virginia.
“Seniors Survey Identifies Double Discrimination for Senior Lesbians.”
Herizons 13(1) (Spring 1999): 9 (464 words).
Persons mentioned as subject: Sandi Kirby, Heidi Streu.
McPherson, Barry D.
Aging as a Social Process: Canadian Perspectives. 4th ed.; Don Mills, Ont.:
Note that a 5th ed. (2008) has been issued.
Ref: PsycINFO index provides a review of the 4th edition, noting that
the work is “
relationships [and other matters]…are but a few of the topics added or
significantly supplemented in this new [4th] edition….”
“New Group Will Help Aging
Norvell, Wiley.
“Those Golden Gays.” Fab
[
pp. [13]-18, 21.
At head of
title: “
be seniors. Gay rights have never come so far. Queer seniors should be
getting their due. So why are they being left behind?”
Compiler note: Gay press articles are generally excluded from this
bibliography, but an exception was made here because of the dearth of
material concerning older gays and lesbians and the substantial nature
of the article.
Patterson, Serena.
“Better One’s Own Path: The Experience of Lesbian Grandmothers in
Schneider, Claire M.
“Lesbian Aging: An Exploratory Study.” MA thesis, Dalhousie University, 1998.
(111 p.)
Sum Quod Sum Foundation.
A Report on the Needs Assessment Survey of Senior Gays and Lesbians.
Concerns needs in
Ref.: bibliography in Chamberland, L’Adaptation… paper, listed
above in this section.
Note also a reference to the results of the survey in a fictional piece
by Gail Ellis, titled
“Old and Gay,” viewed
http://www.mun.ca/the/research/oldandgay.html . Ellis says that this
survey of
mandated to provide facilities, services and educational programming for
older gay men and lesbians. Gay men and lesbians 55 years of age and
over were surveyed….They found most senior lesbians and gay men were
living alone, at incomes below the poverty line, and isolated from siblings,
children, and extended families. Many are also isolated from the larger
gay and lesbian community, and are seriously at risk. Their plight is
accentuated by the reluctance of existing senior’s [sic] organizations to
address gay positive programming.” The Ellis item carries a copyright
date of 2003, by The Heterosexism Enquirer, which bears a relationship to
“The Social Support Networks of Older Lesbians: A Creative Response.”
MA thesis,
(157 p.)
Investigates
situation “of older lesbians who live in
abstract from Canadian Research Index.
Ubelacker, Sheryl.
“Gays Forced Back into
the Closet at Retirement Homes.”
February 26, 2000, p. R4.
Presents several personal accounts; reference to reluctance of
nursing homes to talk of issue when asked.
Veilleux,
Denise.
“
‘Comme des soeurs’: l’invisibilité des lesbiennes âgées dans les services
sociaux et de santé.” In
Adapter nos interventions aux réalités homosexuelles,
volet 2 intitulé “Les
adultes, leurs couples et leurs proches.” Pp. 86-92.
Document préparé par
Irène Demczuk, Michel Dorais, Lynda Peers et
Bill Ryan. [S.l.] : Gouvernement du Québec,
Ministère de la Santé et des
Services sociaux, Centre
de coordination sur le sida, 1998.
Ref.: bibliography of paper by Chamberland, L’Adaptation…, listed
above in this section.
Veilleux, Denise.
“Vieillir en marge, les réseaux
informels et formels des lesbiennes âgées.”
MA thesis,
(233 p.)