Jesus Ramirez-Valles

Queer Aging

The Gayby Boomers and a New Frontier for Gerontology

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

QUEER AGING comprises scholar Jesus Ramirez-Valles's probing conversations with 11 racially and economically diverse representatives of this pioneering generation of gay men ¿ the gayby boomers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 208mm x 137mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 272g
• ISBN-13: 9780190276348
• ISBN-10: 0190276347
• Artikelnr.: 47864078

Autorenporträt

Jesus Ramirez-Valles is a scholar, filmmaker, and an advocate of GLBT and Latino health. He is author of the award-winning book, Compañeros: Latino Activists in the Face of AIDS and creator of the documentary, Tal Como Somos/Just As We Are. He was named one of the "Top Gay Latino Activists who Have Broken Boundaries" by the Huffington Post. For more than twenty years he has worked in public health in both the United States and Latin America. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Health Promotion Practice. He was born in Mexico, obtained his doctoral and masters degrees from the University of Michigan, and is Professor and Head of Community Health Sciences at the University of Illinois-Chicago's School of Public Health.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1: Introduction: Queering Gerontology
2: Stan:"If I'm left, then I have to be the best little gay boy ever"
3: Anthony: " It has to be something else to this"
4: Marvin: "I learned very early that it's not just about being gay"
5: Robert: "I'm a pusher and I don't like to hear the word 'no'"
6: Ramiro: "My family is really my gay friends"
7: Grand: "I am a humanitarian"
8: Charlie:"...being older and being by yourself"
9: Adam:"...age is just a number. I don't necessarily put much stock in it"
10: Jesse:"I am a chameleon. I adapt to whatever you throw me into"
11: Louis: "I'm always meeting the underdog people"
12: Jimmy: "The party came to a crashing end"
13: The Praxis of Queer Gerontology
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