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Queer kinship, queer ageing – perspectives from Poland

Year: 2022

Type: article

Abstract: Although there is a substantial increase of literature on LGBT elders in Anglo-American academia, studies from Central and Eastern Europe are in paucity. This article draws on the narratives of older gay and lesbian people living in same-sex relationships gathered during focus groups interviews in Poland. Their narratives on defining and negotiating kinship reveal and reflect complex shifts and processes in post-socialist countries in the last few decades. The identities and experiences of this group are embedded both in the past regime denying the existence of homosexuality and current social context, still characterised by state-supported homophobia, yet bringing the development of LGBT organisations.

Source: Gender Place & Culture

DOI: 10.1080/0966369x.2022.2042210

Authors: Joanna Mizielińska, Justyna Struzik, Agnieszka Król

Institutions: Institute of Psychology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Jagiellonian University

Language: English

Topic: Gender and Feminist Studies

Subfield: Gender Studies

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Reduced inequalities

Open Access status: green

Funder: Ministerstwo Edukacji i Nauki