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The Sacramento City Council on Tuesday night approved funding for the first LGBT-friendly senior affordable housing project in the Sacramento region. 
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A report to be presented at a Saskatoon conference says many LGBT seniors worry about having to return to the closet if they move into retirement housing.
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It's been a memorable year for LGBT rights, as several seniors pointed out recently in interviews with the Bay Area Reporter .
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AT a public forum, a gay man in his 50s accuses a younger gay man living with HIV of complacency, saying he contracted the virus because he didn’t see all of his friends die. On social media, an older gay man says young gay men don’t appreciate having the freedom to live openly.
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Health Assessment and Research for Communities (HARC), a nonprofit research and evaluation organization, has partnered with the San Diego Human Dignity Foundation and the Alliance Healthcare Foundation to develop a survey about the healthcare experiences...
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Seattle has earmarked money for an "equity training" program to serve LGBT older adults, families, and caregivers.
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"As you get older, it just feels more comfortable to be around people who understand and share your background."
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Retirement by the water, celebrating a golden anniversary, wondering about nursing homes. It's not the usual media image of a gay couple. What’s it like to age together, gracefully or not, as two women or two men?
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Emboldened by recent advances for homosexuals in and out of the military, more gay veterans look to have their ousters reclassified. Via Kelly Riker
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Caution was the watchword financial planners had for same-sex couples contemplating marriage in the wake of the Supreme Court decision making those unions legal nationwide.
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SAGE’s National Resource Center on LGBT Aging heard from LGBT centers across the country that they needed some practical tips on ways that they could make their centers and services available, accessible and welcoming to older adults. Via Kelly Riker
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Today the San Francisco Board of Supervisors will vote on groundbreaking legislation protecting LGBT seniors who are living in long-term care facilities, whether nursing homes, assisted-living facilities, or other similar housing. Via Kelly Riker
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You can’t control getting older, but you can influence the quality of life, writes this financial planner.
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Grandma isn’t the only recent film or TV show about LGBTQ characters no longer in the first bloom of youth. Amazon’s Transparent focuses on the ways family members respond to a parent coming out as trans in her 70s. In Netflix’s Grace and Frankie, two septuagenarian law partners come out as life partners, spurring adjustments in the lives of their children and wives of many decades. Vicious, which airs on PBS in the United States, is a gloriously camp celebration of two gay men in their 70s who have been lovers for 50 years. And a trans 66-year-old was at the center of the year’s most talked-about reality show: the E! Network’s I Am Cait. The trend even spread to the book world, where one of the fall’s most lauded nonfiction releases was The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle, by 75-year-old Lillian Faderman. In the arts at least, 2015 was the year of the queer senior.
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Older LGBT Floridians face unique challenges. They are much more likely to live alone than their straight, cisgender counterparts. More of than four in ten who are single say their healthcare providers don’t know their sexual orientation. And one in ten say they’ve experienced discrimination while searching for affordable housing. Via CenterLink LGBT
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It’s a commonplace to point out that, within the gay male community, youth—and the sexual attractiveness that supposedly comes with it—is a valuable currency. Obviously straight folks prize smooth skin and nubile bodies as well, but there’s a certain way in which the youth cult gets hyper-concentrated among gay guys. And as a new study shows, that concentration can have a disturbingly negative impact on us as we inevitably age.
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From the Bay Area Reporter: As more and more LGBT seniors are living out of the closet, the issues they are confronting during their golden years are receiving increased attention from researchers … Via Kelly Riker
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Openhouse, the San Francisco-based LGBT senior agency, is ramping up its housing outreach as it prepares to open next fall the city's first affordable housing complex meant for LGBT seniors. Via CenterLink LGBT
Matt Skallerud's insight:
Crews with James E. Roberts-Obayashi Corp. are turning the building at 55 Laguna Street, a block away from the San Francisco LGBT Community Center, into 39 units of various sizes meant for low-income seniors age 55 and older. An additional unit is being set aside for the resident manager, while six of the senior units will be assigned to people living with HIV or AIDS and at-risk for or have been chronically homeless.
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"LGBT seniors are going back into the closet because that fear is real. You just know when they don't want you there," says one elderly participant in a new documentary Gen Silent about the largely unreported issue of homophobic hom...
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As the co-editor and publisher of last year’s Outer Voices Inner Lives anthology featuring older authors, I’m delighted to announce an upcoming book from Australia’s David Hardy presenting the stories of more than 50 older LGBTI people, including...
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There's a lengthy waiting list for a place at Sweden's first retirement home for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community, its success highlighting a growing demand for acco...
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Fifteen years ago Becky Bowles and Rhonda Mann were living a relatively low-key existence together in Seattle. Then they went on vacation in Palm Springs, CA, and fell in love not only with the small-town, high-desert vibe, but also the unabashedly gay-friendly vibe. By the third day of their trip, they were looking at properties. On Day 7, they bought.
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A group of 17 performers are busy rehearsing at the Los Angeles LGBT Center's Village at Ed Gould Plaza for a show about life in West Hollywood. They dance, they sing, they laugh and cry. Ranging in age from 55 - 87, this troupe, otherwise known as NewStAGES, is creating the story of Life in the First Gay City, performed June 28 at the Renberg Theatre, from their own experiences. Via CenterLink LGBT
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While there be my no physical pot of gold awaiting seniors arriving at Fountaingrove Lodge, there is America’s first upscale lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT)-friendly retirement community committed to providing continuing and progressive care, a fact that, in and of itself, represents what can be only be categorized as a golden opportunity for a segment of the seniors community that has long been overlooked and under-served. Via Fabrice Tasendo
Fabrice Tasendo's curator insight,
April 7, 2015 5:28 PM
For many retirees The "gay and gray” years have long been looked at with foreboding, but Fountaingrove Lodge offers a different take – a golden opportunity to beanticipated rather than feared. #LGBTSeniors #SonomaSeniors #GaySeniors #LGBTretirement |
The project will consist of 53 units on currently empty lots at 16th and F streets in the Washington Park neighborhood. The project is specifically LGBT-friendly, but is not exclusively for that community. Opponents say they object to the location of the project, not the project itself.
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