Envelhecimento de pessoas lésbicas, gays, bissexuais, travestis, transexuais e intersexuais : uma abordagem existencial.

Abstract

This work tried to answer the question: how the existentialist approach can contribute to the understanding of the aging of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transvestite, transsexual and intersex people. Research indicates an aging population in the world and in Brazil. They also reveal the prejudices, discriminations and exclusions that exist in different institutions regarding old people as well as those who have sexual orientation, identity and expression of different genders. Ageism and LGBTphobia represent a violation of rights, generating violence, social isolation and suffering. Although sexuality and aging are of the human condition, they remain taboo in society. The pandemic faced in 2020 reveals the difficulties and challenges that old people, lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transvestites, transsexuals and intersex people face in everyday life. In existentialism, the conception of the human being as a being in the world (dasein) allows us to understand the being in relations with the world. Psychology as a science and profession can contribute to the prejudices, discrimination and exclusions that exist in society and that cause suffering and violence to be viewed and faced.