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Out of the closet and into the trenches: gay male baby boomers, aging, and HIV/AIDS. |
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Gerontologist, 52(2), April 2012, pp.255-264. |
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0016-9013 |
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The life course perspective is particularly useful for examining the experiences and circumstances of birth cohorts sharing a distinctive position in the course of social change. The aim of this article is to explore the distinctive experiences of gay male members of the Baby Boom generation. This subcohort experienced 2 historical events in their adult and middle years: the emergence of the gay rights movement; and the AIDS pandemic. All gay male Baby Boomers are ageing in a context strongly shaped by HIV/AIDS. The high volume of AIDS deaths among gay men aged 25–44 years at the epidemic’s peak (1987–1996) created a cohort effect, decimating these men’s social networks and shaping their personal and social lives during the epidemic, throughout their life course, and into later years. The article argues for the application of the life course approach to research into the lasting impacts of HIV/AIDS on this cohort of gay men. It examines HIV/AIDS mortality within this cohort at the epidemic’s height, these deaths’ concentration in urban gay communities, and the growing and increasingly diverse population of HIV-positive gay men born in the Baby Boom Years. |
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www.scie-socialcareonline.org.uk/profile.asp?guid=ccbad69e-cffc-472c-b8ab-8e1b5ddfb407 |
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