Adam Greteman

Adam J. Greteman (he/him/his) is a co-founder and co-facilitator of The LGBTQ+ Intergenerational Dialogue Project. I was born in 1983. I am the author of Queers Teach This! Queer and Trans Pleasures, Politics and Pedagogues (Bloomsbury, 2024), Sexualities and Genders in Education: Toward Queer Thriving (Palgrave-MacMillan, 2018), and the the co-author, with Dr. Kevin Burke, of On Being Liked: Queer Subjects and Religious Discourses (Myers Education Press, 2021) and The Pedagogies and Politics of Liking (Routledge, 2017). From 2023-2025, I was a Visiting Professor and Chair of the Hunt-Simes Institute in Sexuality Studies (HISS) at the Sydney Social Sciences and Humanities Advanced Research Centre (SSSHARC) at the University of Sydney.

I co-founded the project with Karen Morris and Todd Williams in 2019 as a way to bring together LGBTQ+ young people and elders to meet in a sustained, critical, and generative way. Personally, this project came out of almost a decade of volunteering at the Center of Halsted for their Pride in Aging Program where I had the opportunity to learn from a diverse array of LGBTQ+ elders and further my own education in the possibilities, pleasures, and challenges of LGBTQ+ life across the lifespan. Some of these elders have importantly become part of my own "logical" or "chosen" family. I continue co-facilitating this project because of the absolute joy and wonder it brings to me and the lessons I continue to learn from younger and older LGBTQ+ folks. I could not have imagined what has come out of conversations in the summer of 2019, but I am thankful for the opportunity to be a part of this community centered and educational work.