The Town of Islip’s Planning Board is scheduled to vote Thursday on a zoning change that will pave the way for an LGBT-friendly affordable housing development in Bay Shore. The proposed 70,000-square-foot development will bring 75 rental apartments to a 2-acre site on the corner of Park Avenue and Mechanicsville Road, just down the block from the Bay Shore Long Island Rail Road station.
Lesbians are more likely to seek healthcare if they are in an accepting healthcare environment, a new opinion paper argues. “Clinicians who have an understanding of lesbian women and their unique stressors, who provide a welcoming and inclusive environment, and who provide cross-cultural care are well positioned to reduce healthcare stigma and improve clinical outcomes,” Drs. Jordan E. Rullo and Stephanie S. Faubion of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, write in Menopause, in an essay focusing on lesbians in middle age.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is expected to release a new rule in the next few weeks that would make it easier for health care providers to discriminate against transgender people and women who have had an abortion in the past.
This year we have been celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Sexual Offences Act (1967), which started the process of the decriminalisation of homosexuality in England and Wales. But the act did not mean full decriminalisation. It only covered acts in private, between two men over the age of 21. It also not cover the Merchant Navy or the Armed Forces.
Hector Zuazo and Robert Medina are happily married, a commitment made in Toronto, Canada 11 years ago because marriage equality had yet to pass in the U.S. back in 2006. Today, in their early 70s, the couple is thinking of their future, one that includes aging in a community where many LGBT seniors do not have spouses or children to take care of them in the latter part of their lives.
A new Canadian survey on the LGBT community suggests while just more than one-tenth of the population identifies as part of that group, many people are reluctant to tell others. More than half of the respondents who described themselves as LGBT said they have not come out to work colleagues, while just under half have not told their classmates. The findings are found in a survey that was commissioned on behalf of a Quebec foundation committed to fighting bullying, discrimination and violence.
According to a SAGE study, older LGBT people are more likely to be single, live alone and be childless. As Prudential’s 2012 LGBT Financial Experience Surveyshows, the “most pressing concern” for queer people is outliving their retirement money. MassMutual’s recent LGBTQ Financial Security Survey shows that 70% of us, relative to 63% of the general population, attest to being behind in our retirement savings.
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