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Tez Anderson is founder and executive director of Let’s Kick “ASS”  (AIDS Survivor Syndrome), a nonprofit dedicated to HIV long-term survivors. In 2014, he started HIV Long-Term Survivors Awareness Day (HLTSAD), which is marked every year on June 5 On World AIDS Day […]

Today, too many older New Yorkers remain invisible. Older people in New York City are often cast aside, despite their incredible civic, economic, and political contributions to our communities and the fact that the 60-and-over population is growing five times […]

Today we’re talking to Sadiya Abjani, Director of Learning & Equity at SAGE, the world’s largest and oldest organization focused on advocacy and services for LGBT elders. SAGECare, SAGE’s cultural competency training and credentialing program, provides training and consulting services to elder care […]

Seniors who are part of the LGBTQ community now have a new tool for finding a safe, affirming long-term care facility. A new consumer guide from SAGE and the Human Rights Campaign Foundation released this month recommends questions LGBTQ elders and their loved […]

In mid-January 2021, Sue Van Zante-Peiser received a call from her friend Ed’s partner. Ed had been hospitalized and the hospital was trying to organize care, but it was tough. Ed’s partner is a decade older and faced his own […]

Marsha Wetzel, an out lesbian, shared her life with her partner of 30 years, Judith Kahn, at the couple’s home in Illinois until Kahn died in 2013 of colon cancer. As is the case with some same-sex couples who never […]