Table 5.

Participant Identified Experiences of Discrimination

Type of discrimination	Participant examples
Suboptimal care	“I was a friendly visitor for an older gay man who was in a nursing home. I witnessed discrimination against him and that was hard. He was not out at the nursing home, but people were aware, and nurse aids would not be appropriately caregiving for him because they were homophobic” (Czaja et al., 2016, p. 1112). “He was treated roughly. They knew he was gay” (Hughes, 2007a, p. 176). “This is one woman... she comes in, she’s got a bible and she’s telling me she’s not washing my clothes and I said, ‘Oh. Did I hear you correctly? You’re not washing my clothes?’ ‘Yes.’ I said, ‘Can you tell me why?’ ‘Because I don’t wash men’s clothes” (Grigorovich, 2015a, p. 954).
Verbal acts	“I think it’s just easier if you don’t … because my experience being in the medical field is I’ve heard how people talk behind people’s back, you know? Not that they don’t necessarily get the same care, but they do a lot of talking and joking and that sort of thing” (Furlotte et al., 2016, p. 436). “Well, not certainly physical. No assault or nothing like that. But I hear them talk. The staff talk. And I know how the situation is seen by certainly not everybody, but by a few, and like I say, I have no control or idea who’s gonna get me up the next day, so, so I shut up” (Green, 2016, p. 77).
Physical acts	“I’ve heard of an episode where one of the staff members came in and saw a photo that showed a man’s partner was male and they threw the photo away” (Barrett et al., 2014, p. 67). “…they shoved a face-cloth in her face and made comments about her being a dyke or something like that” (Green, 2016, p. 71).