Primary Education Topic:
LGBTQ Aging
We love our binaries: Democrat or Republican; male or female; chocolate or vanilla; gay or straight. For many of us, our first concept of sexual orientation was that everyone was either heterosexual or gay … some of us used the “h” word—homosexual. Those who were attracted to and had sex with people of the opposite sex were deemed heterosexual, or “straight.” Those attracted to people of the same sex were gay. For the Baby Boomer generation, it was assumed, and often still is, that you could tell a person’s sexual orientation by the apparent gender of their partner.