Abstract
In this chapter, Traies brings together statistical data from a large-scale survey of some four hundred older lesbians with personal testimonies from life history interviews and autobiographies, to describe the varied domestic arrangements and personal relationships of the older lesbians she studied. Using an intersectional approach, this chapter illustrates the diversity of the older lesbian ‘community’. There are many similarities as well as differences between older lesbians and their heterosexual counterparts. These similarities call into question the very identity category ‘older lesbian’ and raise a recurrent theme of this book: the tension between the ways in which older lesbians are just like other older people and the ways in which their sexual orientation might make them collectively ‘different’.
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