ABSTRACT
This chapter considers how the sexualities of older lesbians and bisexual women are, for the most part, hidden from view, and reflect on the implications of this for sexual rights in later life. It explores how older lesbians' and bisexual women's invisibilisation is a creation of (in)equality, located at the intersections of ageism, sexism and heterosexism. The chapter also considers how these three discriminatory sites work with and through one another to render older lesbians and bisexual women invisible, which in turn denies and/or constrains their access to rights as ageing sexual beings. It draws on the conceptual framework of intersectionality, which was first developed by Black feminist critical theorists, who sought to highlight how Black women experience racism differently from Black men and sexism differently from White women. In many cultures, older people are subject to profound cultural devaluation. Many older lesbians and bisexual women remain resilient and in good health.
