Respect Your Elders: Strengthening Intergenerational Queer Communities. “One of the most pernicious outcomes of homophobic narratives has been to rob us of our queer elders,” wrote grantee Rae Garringer for their Pulitzer Center-supported project, The Queens of Queen City. “This grief only deepens each time new legislation aimed at keeping queer and trans youth away from queer and trans adults is introduced in one state or another bills aimed at unraveling the intergenerational connections we’ve worked so hard to claim.” Join the Pulitzer Center on August 14, 2023, to discuss queer mentorships, families, and legacies. The lives of LGBTQ+ people are not always measured by getting married, having children, or becoming grandparents. “Our life spans are so different,” one woman told Vijayta Lalwani, writing for Indian outlet Queerbeat. In the United States, a 2001 Administration on Aging study found that LGBT older adults are "20% less likely than their heterosexual p
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Rae Garringer . Rae Garringer is a writer, oral historian, and audio producer who grew up on a sheep farm in southern West Virginia, and now lives a few counties away on traditional S’atsoyaha (Yuchi) lands. Garringer is the founder of Country Queers, a multimedia oral history project documenting rural and small-town LGBTQIA2+ experiences since 2013. Garringer received a bachelor's degree from Hampshire College and a master's in folklore and American studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. They were the public affairs director at Appalshop's community radio station WMMT-FM in eastern Kentucky from 2017 to 2020. Garringer is a senior Civic Media fellow at the University of Southern California's Annenberg Innovation Lab, which is a part of the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. They are currently at work on two books: Country Queers: The Story of a DIY Oral History Project, for fall 2024 publication from Haymarket Books