Joseph CascianiGeropsychologist, Consultant, Public Speaking, Freelance · Podcast Host of the Living to 100 Club | Clinical Strategies for Senior Residential Settings & Lifestyle Directors | Geropsychologist | Keynote Speaker

Improving the Lives of LGBTQ+ Older Adults with Michael Adams

9 Aug 2024 · 1 min

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In this segment, the speaker highlights SAGE’s tagline, “We refuse to be invisible,” explaining how historically enforced invisibility has been used to deny LGBTQ people equality and human rights. The speaker argues that this erasure is intensified for older LGBTQ adults, who face a double burden: societal pressure to hide their queer identities and age‑related invisibility that marginalizes them both within the broader community and within LGBTQ spaces. The discussion frames invisibility as a structural injustice that must be actively resisted to improve the lives of LGBTQ older adults.

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That's so— SAGE's tagline is, "We refuse to be invisible," and that really speaks to the fact, you know, historically enforced invisibility has been one of the key means of denying LGBTQ people equality and human rights by making believe we don't exist, by trying to force us to hide who we are, and that's been a That's been an historical reality and challenge for LGBTQ people. And then that reality, in a sense, becomes even more intense for older members of LGBTQ communities who have to struggle not only with the pressures in our society to hide who we are as LGBTQ people, but also the fact that in many senses, many old people, as we age, we become invisible to society as a whole. And that's true within the LGBTQ community as it is.