day 1 0915 - terry trussler
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Pride, Prejudice & Determinants of Health
The Meaning of Life Course
Terry Trussler EdD
Community Based Research CentreFor Gay Men’s Health
Summit Quest…
• 2005 Setting the Agenda• 2006 Two Days for Gay Health• 2007 What will it take?• 2008 How will we get there?• 2009 Exposing the Determinants• 2010 Impact, Resistance & Resilience• 2011 Health & Sexual Rights• 2012 Reconsidering the Determinants• 2013 Health & Gay Men’s Life Course
Going Eco Social
2009 Determinants of Health
2010 Intersectionality
2011 Minority Stress, Syndemic
2012 Prejudice & Social Location
2013 Life Course: time & place
Exclusions in population data
Methods developing
Multiple social stressors - health outcomesEmployment discrimination - health outcomes
Institute of Medicine (2011)The Health of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People:Building a Foundation for Better Understanding
New terms
• Life Span• Life Course • Generation • Birth Cohort• Longitudinal
Generational divide?Boomers, Gen X stereotyping Gen Y
• Shallow• Silly• Uninterested in work• Profoundly ungrateful• Sexually careless• Consider activism icky & noisy• Remorselessly “Post Gay”
Gen Y stereotypingGen X, Boomers
• Terminally depressed• Horrible scolds• Talk about AIDS like war vets• Act as if invented activism• Get off on victimhood• Grim, prim, doctrinaire bores• Jealous of easygoing youth
Village Voice, NYC 2012
Gay Generations
• Intergenerational differences • Attitudes toward health & prevention• Go-To knowledge sources• Social media attachment• Several generations @ work• Traumas: Bullying v. AIDS
Summit Discussion
• Location, migration & life course• Age, life course and gay health• Investigaytors: YESS youth research• Mpowereing Millenials• Totally Outright leadership training