As LGBTQ+ people and our allies continue to celebrate Pride throughout the summer, we have been pummeled with an avalanche of laws passed in more than 20 states targeting LGBTQ+ youth, their [...]
In the wake of a nightmarish legislative session for LGBTQ Iowans, a defiant Pride month has come and gone. Throngs of people gathered to celebrate in communities across the state from early [...]
For any older adult, finding a place to live is a hard process. They have to consider things like cost, proximity to family, and transportation access. For LGBTQ adults, it gets even more [...]
Recent research shows the likelihood of LGBTQ+ adults living in poverty is greater than their cisgender, straight peers in part due to higher rates of unemployment and underemployment. The [...]
Companionship can often feel like an afterthought when you get swept into the whirlpool of life. As we age, the need for endless conversation and friendly laughs grows with each year and making [...]
For any older adult, finding a place to live is a hard process. They have to consider things like cost, proximity to family, and transportation access. For LGBTQ adults, it gets even more [...]
Coming out isn’t a privilege, it’s a human right, says Pat Martin, community activist and event planner. “I do not feel like I need permission to be me, or to live and love as I feel,” the [...]
A $14 million development to create 54 new affordable apartments in Portland, Maine, for the LGBTQ+ community and its allies aged 55 and older is part of a small but growing movement to create [...]
Coming out isn’t a privilege, it’s a human right, says Pat Martin, community activist and event planner. “I do not feel like I need permission to be me, or to live and love as I feel,” the [...]
Melissa Giberson writes that she was happily married, with kids, when she saw something that changed everything. It happened about 11 years ago at her local YMCA. Having completed a workout and [...]
Ray Gibson, a 65-year-old Air Force veteran and son of Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Bob Gibson, realized he was transgender in 2015. Gibson never saw trans representation in the media growing up [...]
Media coverage of transgender people is often focused on youth. While younger generations are far more likely to identify as LGBTQ+, transgender older adults exist and have always existed. It is [...]
At the same time, the need for elder care is growing, with an estimated 7 million LGBTQ+ seniors anticipated across the country by 2030. That’s according to the organization SAGE, a leading [...]
When Paulette Thomas-Martin, an artist living in New York City, came out to her three kids 30 years ago, they were mostly grown. Thomas-Martin had been in the process of reckoning with her [...]
Older adults in the LGBTQ+ community are twice as likely to be single and four times less likely to have children as their non-LGBTQ+ peers, according to SAGE, a national advocacy organization [...]
Members of the LGBTQ++ community also provide care at a much higher rate — 1 in 5 LGBTQ++ people provide care, compared to 1 in 6 non-LGBTQ++ people, according to SAGE, a national advocacy and [...]
In 2012, United Church Homes began working with SAGE to train employees and leaders and went through the SAGECare education process, Long-Higgins said. A local resource: Veterans Affairs Pride [...]
SAGE, a national advocacy and service organization for LGBTQ elders, offers a “find a provider” tool on its website, www.sageusa.org. The tool allows people to search for long-term [...]
A program that was born out of the early weeks of the pandemic has paired LGBTQ elders with volunteers in the community for more than three years. Like most people, many older members of the [...]
Older people in the LGBTQ community are especially in need of support, both from each other and the outside community. According to SAGE, an organization specializing in elder LGBTQ adults, they [...]
