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Generations, Survey 1.01
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Welcome to the Generation Survey 1
I appreciate your taking this time to share your memories and insights with me. This means a lot to me. I hope to use your responses to help make the world a bit better.
I invite you to send this survey link to any LGBTQ+ people you know! https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/LGBTQ_generations
What this is all about:
This is about learning more from people across the many LGBTQ+ communities. What connects us, what validates us? How do we build identity? How do we find meaning and belonging in our lives, when we're not commonly born into families of our own LGBTQ+ demographics? And specifically, how does this relate to intergenerational connections.
I want us all to learn more. I may want to write about, and even publish, what I learn.
And one other goal here: I hope that simply considering the following questions leads toward fulfillment of your life's wonderful potential.
Being LGBTQ+ can affect our lives in many profound ways.
One way can be in separating us from the rest of humanity. We can be "othered" in many ways. Assumptions about our life paths. Who in our lives we learn from. “Logical family” vs “biological family”. How we formulate our models for love — even ways that cis-heterosexual people now learn from us, decades later. How we think of, and engage in, sex. Even career and health care. Limitations to how we get and give to generations beyond our own.
Another way is in how we connect and create bonds with each other and the world around us. What friends mean to us. In-group culture and understanding. The profound commonality of life-long coming out. How we question assumptions in the word around us. What we do get from, and pass on to other generations.
In the survey, I ask you to think about the history of your sense of belonging, as a person with your verion of LGBTQ+ identity.
What you have received: What happened in your own life that produced feelings of connection and belonging? What was especially nurturing? What could have been better?
What you have provided: Are there any ways that you have reached out to others, to nurture connection and belonging in their LGBTQ+ lives? What was especially nurturing? What could have been better?
This feels very important to me, for the lives of people I care about; for your life!
Frankly, I want our LGBTQ+ lives to be enriched by the goodness of generational continuity, and I want to learn how to make that happen.