Intersectionality, Race and Sexuality: Understandings for Black Elderly LGBTI+

Abstract

Intersectionality is a term stressed at the center of the anti-racist feminist movement, and currently attributed to the conjunction of what forms of social exclusion are added according to identity conditions of race, gender, sexuality and social class. In this context, black people LGBTI+ aggregate multiple prejudices, such as racism and LGBTphobia, that affect the quality of life and have deleterious consequences for their aging, when age appears as another object of social aversion. Therefore, sought to revisit the literature from various sources, mainly scientific articles, aiming at the intersectionality theoretical basis to produce understandings about the old age of LGBTI+ black elderly. It was argued that racial and sexual inequalities match with other variables’ social vulnerability, whereby black LGBTI + get less access to health, education and social protection, being more prone to social marginalization in old age than white and heterosexual older people. Although empirical data aren’t produced on the Brazilian context of LGBTI+ black elderly, it’s expected to contribute to the expansion of the gerontological literature on the psychosocial aspects of aging in this group, emphasizing that public policies must be constantly reinforced for protect social minorities. Owing to population aging as the irrevocable, plural and dynamic phenomenon.

Keywords

• interseccionalidade
• sexismo
• racismo
• idoso
• minorias sexuais e de gênero