1. Community Based Research Centre
For Gay Men’s Health
Pride, Prejudice & Determinants of Health
Terry TrusslerEdD

2. Summit Quest…
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2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
Setting the Agenda
Two Days for Gay Health
What will it take?
How will we get there?
Exposing the Determinants
Impact, Resistance & Resilience
Health & Sexual Rights
Reconsidering the Determinants
Health & Gay Men’s Life Course

3. Going Eco Social
2009 Determinants of Health
Exclusions in population data
2010 Intersectionality
Methods developing
2011 Minority Stress, Syndemic
Multiple social stressors 
- health outcomes
Employment discrimination 
- health outcomes
2012 Prejudice & Social Location
2013 Life Course: time & place

4. Institute of Medicine (2011)
The Health of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People:
Building a Foundation for Better Understanding

5. New terms
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Life Span
Life Course
Generation
Birth Cohort
Longitudinal

7. Generational divide?
Boomers, Gen X
stereotyping Gen Y
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Shallow
Silly
Uninterested in work
Profoundly ungrateful
Sexually careless
Consider activism icky & noisy
Remorselessly “Post Gay”
Gen Y stereotyping
Gen X, Boomers
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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

8. Gay Generations
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Intergenerational differences
Attitudes toward health & prevention
Go-To knowledge sources
Social media attachment
Several generations @ work
Traumas: Bullying v. AIDS

9. Summit Discussion
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Location, migration & life course
Age, life course and gay health
Investigaytors: YESS youth research
MpowereingMillenials
Totally Outright leadership training