Conference Panel Making room makes all the difference – intersections of sexual, gender and age diversity in the context of Southern Europe Focused on LGBTQI+ people in Southern Europe, this panel presented during the Midterm Conference of the European Sociological Association Sexuality Research Network, at the University of Zagreb (28-29 September 2023) addresses issues of memory and the costs of not remembering from the point of view of those who are left out from dominant arenas of life, albeit activism, health, sports or academia. The panel is organized within the research projects REMEMBER, funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology, and TRACE, funded by the European Research Council, both ongoing at the Center for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra (CES-UC).

TRACE presentations:

Joana Brilhante
Insular queers: age and geographical isolation as significant categories to consider while reflecting on LGBTQ people’s visibility

Ana Cristina Santos
Making room for older queers – Intimate citizenship in times of cis-heteronormative ageism