There is a new resource from SAGE and the Human Rights Campaign Foundation called the Long-Term Care Equality Index that can help you find residential long-term care facilities in your area that [...]
This is National Suicide Prevention Week, which technically means that during this week we are to raise awareness for suicide prevention. Next week is, among other things, National Child [...]
And why it’s never too late to explore your own sexuality. In the mid-80s, Loren Olson was living out the idyllic vision of suburban peace. He had been married for 18 years, had two wonderful [...]
Diedra Nottingham, 71, is a lifelong New Yorker. Today, she calls Stonewall House home. Located in Brooklyn’s Fort Greene neighborhood, the building is New York City’s first LGBTQIA+ friendly [...]
When Josie Nixon visited her health insurer’s website seeking a coronavirus vaccine, she felt invisible: On a registration form that collected personal and demographic information, the [...]
President Joe Biden has set a deadline of September 11 — the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks — for full troop withdrawal from Afghanistan. This means thousands of soldiers who have been [...]
The pharmacist has started doing pop-up vaccination events at senior affordable housing facilities, possibly illuminating a new way to reach vulnerable groups. In a city scrambling to vaccinate [...]
The AARP Foundation and SAGE, an organization that advocates for older LGBTQ+ people, announced that they’re working together on an initiative to address needs of older LGBTQ+ people. New York [...]
For the 12 years she was in the Navy, La Wanda Mobley said she was pretty much the ideal service member. “I had a stellar career, I had medals, my performance evaluations were always the highest [...]
Bill Meehan moved into Stonewall House, an affordable, L.G.B.T.Q.-friendly senior housing development in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, early this year, when it was not exactly an ideal time to get to [...]
Last November, Corona was a beer, you only saw face masks at the dentist, and dyke nightlife was popping off all around the world. A year ago, on a bitingly cold Sunday afternoon in New York, [...]
On Wednesday night, the Community Diversity Group hosted a panel discussion highlighting the experiences of the LGBTQ+ community in central Pennsylvania. Topics included the valuable efforts and [...]
The W’ALL, a project based out Austin, is teaming up with musicians, celebrities, and visual artists to create the largest crowd-sourced piece of art for social good since the AIDS Quilt and is [...]
Diving into the numbers on mental health among LGBTQ+-identified people in the U.S., the raw numbers are just staggering. According to a recent study by the Trevor Project, a nonprofit [...]
New York City is one of the most LGBTQ+-friendly cities in the world, and the birthplace of the country’s gay rights movement. But even so, many in the community, especially youth and transgender [...]
From her wheelchair, Pam Reece leads an exercise class for her fellow residents at Wakefield Care and Rehabilitation Center in Kansas. Nowadays, the class is not in the activity room, where [...]
Tim R. Johnston, Ph.D., senior director of national projects for LGBTQ+ elder advocacy organization SAGE, spent a year and a half working on his new book, “Welcoming LGBTQ+ Residents: A Practical [...]
LGBTQ+ New Yorkers tell us how they’ve been staying in touch with the local scene during these unprecedented times. New York has changed drastically over the last few months and that [...]
AFTER A LIFETIME of living openly as a gay man, Elliot Englebaum, 73, has become a shut-in at his assisted living facility in Hollywood, Florida. Because of the deadly coronavirus pandemic, [...]
With thousands of New York City seniors being urged to stay off public transportation and away from crowded public areas, they’re spending more time in other physically treacherous environments: [...]
