In Brazil, studies on sexuality and LGBTI people are only now emerging; research related to aging in the LGBTI context is virtually non-existent. Early research on the LGBTI experience across the life spectrum indicates – despite progressive legislation and social attitudes – high levels of discrimination and bias-based violence such that mere LGBTI status impairs access to educational, economic and social resources.This presentation will explore the juxtaposition of progressive legislation on LGBTI human rights and liberal social attitudes about sexuality against practitioners’ observations of the lived experience of LGBTI older adults in Brazil, which is shaped both by the discrimination and marginalization endemic to the LGBTI population as a whole and by the intersection of LGBTI and aging experiences in the country. The presentation will highlight areas that require more research, and emerging innovative practices that suggest opportunities for progress in developing healthy aging experiences for the LGBTI older population.
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