Research Catalog

Title

Gay and gray : the older homosexual man / Raymond M. Berger.

Author

Berger, Raymond M. (Raymond Mark), 1950-

Publication

New York : Haworth Press, [1996]

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Details

Description

xv, 333 pages; 22 cm

Series Statement

Haworth gay & lesbian studies

Uniform Title

Haworth gay & lesbian studies

Subjects

• Older gay men
• Interviews
• United States
• Older gay men > United States > Interviews
• Older gay men > United States > Social conditions > 20th century

Genre/Form

Interviews.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-330) and index.

Contents

Foreword / Quentin Crisp -- Prologue: Gay and gray revisited / Raymond M. Berger and James J. Kelly -- Part I: The interview study. The interview respondents. General observations and demographic data ; Coming out ; Involvement with family and community ; Social and sex life ; Intergenerational attitudes ; Discrimination ; Life review ; Adaptation ; Follow up ; Matthew ; William ; Mike ; Arthur ; David ; Scott -- Part II: The questionnaire study. Method. The questionnaire ; The sample -- What are older homosexual men like? Age ; Sexual orientation ; Living situation ; Marriage and love ; Socioeconomic status ; Psychological and social adaptation -- What leads to psychological and social adjustment? The societal reaction perspective ; Relationship of respondent characteristics to psychological adjustment ; The well-adjusted older homosexual -- The older homosexual man in perspective. Diversity ; Prejudice ; Adjustment of the older homosexual ; Psychosocial problems ; Services and policy for the older homosexual -- Part III: Additional perspectives on gay aging. Age-status labeling in homosexual men / Fred A. Minnigerode -- Natives and settlers : an ethnographic note on early interaction of older homosexual men with younger gay liberationists / John Grube. Socialization into the traditional gay community ; Liberation : settlers transforming the landscape ; Three examples of accommodation -- Sexual attitudes and behavior in midlife and aging homosexual males / Mark Pope, Richard Schulz -- Older lesbian and gay people: a theory of successful aging / Richard A. Friend.

ISBN

• 1560249862
• 9781560249863
• 1560238755
• 9781560238751

LCCN

95023223

OCLC

• ocm32780032
• 32780032
• SCSB-14692316

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library