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  • Sociology
  • Community Studies

Background:

  • LGBTQ+ communities navigate significant personal, structural, and collective trauma.
  • Existing frameworks of resilience and posttraumatic growth have limitations when applied to LGBTQ+ experiences.
  • Generational divisions within LGBTQ+ communities can be a source of trauma.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To reconceptualize resilience and posttraumatic growth for LGBTQ+ individuals as 'queer thriving'.
  • To explore pathways to queer thriving through intergenerational community engagement.
  • To challenge normative ideas of positive change through adversity using the Möbius strip metaphor.

Main Methods:

  • Multidisciplinary literature review to identify limitations of current frameworks.
  • Co-facilitation of an LGBTQ+ intergenerational community project since 2019.
  • Ethnographic approach involving storytelling, dialogue, and artmaking among younger and older LGBTQ+ adults.

Main Results:

  • The Möbius strip metaphor offers a new perspective on positive change trajectories.
  • Intergenerational connection through shared activities facilitates healing of community divisions.
  • Three ethnographic vignettes illustrate the potential for queer thriving via social connection.

Conclusions:

  • Queer thriving provides a more nuanced framework for understanding LGBTQ+ adaptive capacities.
  • Intergenerational community projects are vital for fostering healing and queer thriving.
  • Mixed-disciplinary, community-engaged, and descriptive research is crucial for studying marginalized communities.