On this edition of Your Call, we continue with KALW Pride week by finding out how LGBTQ+ communities are celebrating and fighting back against the Trump administration’s anti-LGBTQ [...]
When Renata Ramos was 5, she stood in front of a mirror, squeezed her eyes shut, and prayed that when she opened them, she would see a girl looking back at her. “I’d go to the mirror, I’d look, [...]
David Perry recalls being young and gay in 1980s Washington D.C. and having “an absolute blast.” He was fresh out of college, raised in Richmond, Virginia, and had long viewed the nation’s [...]
U.S. Representatives Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) and Angie Craig (D-MN) have reintroduced the Elder Pride Protection Act, a bill aimed at addressing harassment and abuse against LGBTQ+ seniors. The [...]
Legislation introduced Friday, during Pride Month, by more than a dozen House Democrats would help combat abuse against elderly LGBTQ Americans. The Elder Pride Protection Act would establish a [...]
With the arrival of June begins the start of Pride Month, an annual celebration that honors the LGBTQ+ community—and pays tribute to the 1969 Stonewall Riots in New York City, a major turning [...]
Thirty-three years ago, Gloria Careaga helped launch Mexican lesbian organization El clóset de Sor Juana, growing it into one of the country’s most influential LGBTQ nonprofits until its closure [...]
A new report from the Milken Institute, in partnership with SAGE, outlines five financing models to address the growing need for affordable, LGBTQ+-affirming elder housing in the United States. [...]
In June, Pride Month is more than an excuse to don every color of the rainbow. It marks a special time for some members of the LGBTQ+ community and their allies to join forces for celebration and [...]
A new report published on May 4 brings attention to some of the most pressing housing affordability issues facing LGBTQ older adults and offers potential solutions to address those problems in [...]
This episode of Take Pride in Retirement features a powerful conversation with Christina DaCosta from SAGE (Advocacy and Services for LGBTQ+ Elders) about building financial security for LGBTQ+ [...]
Senior living is already a service that is out of reach for millions of older adults in the U.S. For gay and trans older adults, that is especially true. A new report from the Milken Institute [...]
Wesley Adolphus Pinkney, 71, never imagined he might get to spend his golden years at an independent living community for LGBTQ+ seniors. At one point in time, he didn’t think he’d [...]
Kasha Nabagesera is widely regarded as the Mother of the Ugandan LGBTQ+ human rights movement. As one of the most prominent human rights activists of our time, she is no stranger to speaking [...]
In 1989, Ronald Johnson did not think he would live to see old age. Johnson, a Black gay man, was diagnosed with HIV that year, during the height of the U.S. AIDS epidemic, when the life [...]
Thanks to 40 years of dedicated research, public education, and medical breakthroughs, HIV in the United States has become largely preventable—a manageable condition for people who are connected [...]
For years, White House press conferences included sign language interpreters for the deaf. No longer. Interpreters have been noticeably absent from Trump administration press briefings, advocacy [...]
Some big companies across the U.S., not to mention the federal government, are backtracking on diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging. Senior living operators are not following suit. In [...]
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Division of HIV Prevention may be in trouble, according to today’s announcement from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services stating [...]
A public health crisis akin to the HIV pandemic in the 1980s could be on the horizon, experts say, should the Trump administration go through with its reported idea of ridding the CDC of the [...]
