Fabbre Vanessa, Oswald Austin, Jen Sarah
The Brown School, Washington University in St. Louis, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA.
School of Health and Human Performance, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Gerontologist. 2025 May 10;65(6). doi: 10.1093/geront/gnaf112.
Gerontology has advanced greatly in recent decades in its attention to the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and additional sexual and gender diverse (LGBTQ+) people. To this end, scholars have argued for a queering of our understanding of the life course and aging futures. Others have called for the queering of gerontology itself. We argue that a vision of queer gerontology-framed in 5 principles-can promote rigorous advancement in our scholarship around aging as well as transforming our approaches to knowledge development and building scholarly communities based on an ethic of care. Grounded in historical waves of LGBTQ+ aging literature and our own experiences in this scholarly area, we present and discuss five principles of queer gerontology, as a means of building guidance for and solidarity in the study of LGBTQ+ aging. We argue that these principles will foster greater diversity and creativity in visions of later life, thereby promoting inclusion and justice for LGBTQ+ older adults, but also for all people as we age.
近几十年来,老年学在关注女同性恋、男同性恋、双性恋、跨性别者、酷儿及其他性取向和性别多样化(LGBTQ+)人群的生活方面取得了巨大进展。为此,学者们主张对我们对生命历程和老年未来的理解进行酷儿化。其他人则呼吁老年学本身进行酷儿化。我们认为,以5项原则构建的酷儿老年学愿景,可以推动我们围绕衰老的学术研究取得严谨进展,并改变我们的知识发展方式,以及基于关怀伦理建立学术社群。基于LGBTQ+衰老文献的历史浪潮以及我们在这一学术领域的自身经验,我们提出并讨论酷儿老年学的五项原则,以此为LGBTQ+衰老研究提供指导并促进团结。我们认为,这些原则将在晚年愿景中培养更大的多样性和创造力,从而促进LGBTQ+老年人以及我们所有人在衰老过程中的包容与公正。