LGBTQ+ people and communities continue to survive and thrive within the context of complex and unrelenting personal, structural, and collective trauma. Psychological research has examined this adaptive capacity through frameworks of resilience and posttraumatic growth. Through multidisciplinary engagement, we have identified limitations of these frameworks when they are applied to LGBTQ+ communities. In the first half of this article, we reconceptualize resilience and posttraumatic growth as queer thriving and offer the Möbius strip as a metaphor to challenge and expand normative ideas around direction, trajectory, timeline, and outcomes of positive change through adversity. In the second half of this article, we explore pathways to queer thriving within an LGBTQ+ intergenerational community project-an ethnographic experiment-that we have cofacilitated since 2019. We view generational divisions in LGBTQ+ communities as both a reflection and a form of trauma. In our ethnographic experiment, LGBTQ+ younger and older adults have the rare opportunity to heal this division by coming together for storytelling, dialogue, and artmaking around themes and issues important to their lives. In this article, we present three ethnographic vignettes that powerfully illustrate the potential for queer thriving through intergenerational social connection. We conclude by emphasizing the importance of mixed-disciplinary, community-engaged, and descriptive approaches to examining resilience and posttraumatic growth within marginalized communities. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).

中文翻译：

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酷儿在 LGBTQ+ 代际社区中蓬勃发展的途径。


LGBTQ+ 人群和社区在复杂而无情的个人、结构和集体创伤的背景下继续生存和发展。心理学研究通过弹性和创伤后成长的框架来检验这种适应能力。通过多学科参与，我们确定了这些框架在应用于 LGBTQ+ 社区时的局限性。在本文的前半部分，我们将复原力和创伤后成长重新定义为酷儿的蓬勃发展，并提供莫比乌斯带作为隐喻，以挑战和扩展围绕逆境中积极变化的方向、轨迹、时间表和结果的规范性观念。在本文的后半部分，我们探讨了自 2019 年以来一直参与的 LGBTQ+ 代际社区项目（一项民族志实验）中酷儿蓬勃发展的途径。我们认为 LGBTQ+ 社区的代际分歧既是一种反映，也是一种创伤形式。在我们的人种学实验中，LGBTQ+ 年轻人和老年人有一个难得的机会，通过聚在一起围绕对他们生活重要的主题和问题讲故事、对话和艺术创作来弥合这种分歧。在本文中，我们提出了三个民族志小插曲，它们有力地说明了酷儿通过代际社会联系蓬勃发展的潜力。最后，我们强调了混合学科、社区参与和描述性方法对研究边缘化社区内的复原力和创伤后成长的重要性。（PsycInfo 数据库记录 （c） 2024 APA，保留所有权利）。