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Celebrating Pride while fighting Trump’s anti-LGBTQ policies

June 16, 2025

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 [...]

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Trans rights are under attack. These trans elders say they ‘aren’t afraid’

June 16, 2025

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, [...]

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As a generation of gay and lesbian people ages, memories of worse — and better — times swirl

June 16, 2025

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 [...]

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Gottheimer and Craig reintroduce bill to address abuse against LGBTQ+ seniors

June 16, 2025

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 [...]

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House Democrats’ bill would combat LGBTQ elder abuse

June 16, 2025

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 [...]

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Inside the Rise of LGBTQ+ Retirement Communities

June 16, 2025

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 [...]

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Project features stories of global LGBTQ elders

June 16, 2025

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 [...]

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New report offers strategies to fund inclusive housing for LGBTQ+ seniors

June 16, 2025

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. [...]

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Pride Month 2025: Making Connections Through Community

June 16, 2025

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 [...]

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Report suggests pathways to sustainable, lower-cost housing for LGBTQ older adults

June 16, 2025

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 [...]

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SAGE Advice for LGBTQ+ Elders: Smarter Finances, Safer Savings, Stronger Futures

June 16, 2025

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+ [...]

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Social Bonds, Impact Investment Funds, Partnerships Can Ease LGBTQ+ Senior Housing Affordability Crisis

May 8, 2025

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 [...]

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LGBTQ+ seniors often struggle to find housing. A new senior home wants to change that

May 7, 2025

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 [...]

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LGBTQ elder voices matter now more than ever

May 7, 2025

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 [...]

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Growing old with HIV is now possible. Trump’s CDC cuts threaten that progress.

May 7, 2025

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 [...]

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We Cannot Afford to Lose Ground in the Fight Against HIV/AIDS

May 7, 2025

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 [...]

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Trump’s DEI Undoing Undermines Hard-Won Accommodations for Disabled People

May 7, 2025

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 [...]

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Senior Living Operators Stand Firm on Diversity, Inclusion as Other Companies Backtrack

May 7, 2025

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 [...]

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Cuts to CDC’s HIV Program Will Spell Disaster, HIV Advocate Says

May 7, 2025

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 [...]

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Elimination of Division of HIV Prevention Could Have Consequences for HIV Response

May 7, 2025

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 [...]

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