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VUSNAPS is recruiting older LGBT adults across the South to participate in a study on relationships, health, and aging. 

To qualify you must be:

• be 50 to 76 years old (born between 1944 and 1970)
• identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, nonbinary, or gender nonconforming (LGBT/NB)
• live in an active recruiting area in Alabama, North Carolina, or Tennessee

Participants will:

• complete three 60-minute online surveys over the next four years
• be paid $40 for the first survey, $50 for the second, and $60 for the third
• be paid $5 for referring another eligible person to the study who completes the survey (up to $25)

This study is being conducted by and for our community with the support of Vanderbilt University and the National Institutes of Health. We hope to use the results of this study to inform policy and programs for older LGBT adults in the South. 

The purpose of VUSNAPS is to understand the different kinds of personal relationships that older lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and gender nonconforming/nonbinary adults in the US South draw on to provide support in mid- and later-life and to examine how life events affect those relationships and the health of older LGBT/NB people. We are interested in identifying factors that help older LGBT/NB adults thrive in later life.