Trump Cuts Threaten L.G.B.T.Q. Senior Centers: ‘This Is About People’

George Kwast spent 15 years mostly alone in his apartment in Manhattan after he retired in 2009, reading, watching television and thinking about friends who had moved away or died. Then he visited the Edie Windsor SAGE Center, which relies on a mix of private and public funding to provide services for older L.G.B.T.Q. adults, who face far higher rates of isolation and poverty than their heterosexual peers. Since that day last year, Mr. Kwast’s life has changed. He has new friends who invite him to dinner parties or join him at the center for book clubs, bingo and karaoke nights. He performs midcentury hits by Irving Berlin and Perry Como. […]