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Queer Elders: Lives and Life Lessons
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Expected 18 Mar 27Please hear me.
We get here, you and me, my dark eyed, lost younger me, we found an answer to the question of feeling or being real. We are real and we are very much alive.
We made it to an older age.
Getting older as a queer person has a complicated history. Stigma, violence, HIV, and the pervasive effects of long-term discrimination have taken too many queer people before their time, and social attitudes towards ageing can close even more doors in the faces of people moving into the next phase of life. But there is also a fierce, defiant joy.
Through interviews with iconic queer elders, including Joelle Taylor, Karen Fisch, Jonathan Blake, Ash Kotak, Lola Flash, and Marc Thompson, this book explores what it means to grow older in the LGBTQIA+ community and the wealth of possibilities beyond 50. Interviewees discuss their experiences, life lessons, and share the joys of ageing through a queer lens.
We get here, you and me, my dark eyed, lost younger me, we found an answer to the question of feeling or being real. We are real and we are very much alive.
We made it to an older age.
Getting older as a queer person has a complicated history. Stigma, violence, HIV, and the pervasive effects of long-term discrimination have taken too many queer people before their time, and social attitudes towards ageing can close even more doors in the faces of people moving into the next phase of life. But there is also a fierce, defiant joy.
Through interviews with iconic queer elders, including Joelle Taylor, Karen Fisch, Jonathan Blake, Ash Kotak, Lola Flash, and Marc Thompson, this book explores what it means to grow older in the LGBTQIA+ community and the wealth of possibilities beyond 50. Interviewees discuss their experiences, life lessons, and share the joys of ageing through a queer lens.
240 pages, Paperback
Expected publication March 18, 2027
About the author
Juno Roche
9 books101 followersJuno Roche is a writer and campaigner whose work around gender, sexuality and trans lives has been funded by the likes of The Paul Hamlyn Foundation and described as 'provocative, cutting edge and innovative'. They studied Fine Art and Philosophy at Brighton and English Literature at Sussex, and writes for a wide range of publications including Bitch Magazine, Dazed, Vice, Broadly, Cosmopolitan, The i, i-D, The Independent, The Tate Magazine and Refinery29. They were born in Peckham and now live in the mountains of Andalusia.
Juno's first book, Queer Sex, was published in 2018.
Their second book, Trans Power, was published inOctober 2019.
Gender Explorers, their third book, will be published in June 2020
Queer Sex is simply phenomenal. (Bitch Media)
Queer Sex is an audacious and inspiring challenge to a system that shames trans bodies and desires. Roche's words are a gift to anyone looking to open their minds and fall in love with the possibilities of love. (CN Lester, academic, musician and author of Trans Like Me)
Juno's first book, Queer Sex, was published in 2018.
Their second book, Trans Power, was published inOctober 2019.
Gender Explorers, their third book, will be published in June 2020
Queer Sex is simply phenomenal. (Bitch Media)
Queer Sex is an audacious and inspiring challenge to a system that shames trans bodies and desires. Roche's words are a gift to anyone looking to open their minds and fall in love with the possibilities of love. (CN Lester, academic, musician and author of Trans Like Me)
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