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Lesbian couple can be banned from MO retirement home.

Retirement is hard enough — add being LGBTQ+ to the mix, and it can be a nightmare. A Missouri lesbian couple’s federal lawsuit against a retirement community has been dismissed by a U.S. district judge, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports…

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Trending? Some older gay men are having straight sex.

One in 10 middle-aged gay men have had vaginal sex in the past three months, according to German study. The research found that out of this sub-group of participants, all of whom self-identified as homosexual, three-quarters of them had never had sex with a man.      

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Daddy issues: Can you “age out” of the LGBT community?

Here is a personal and sometimes comical look at growing older in these gay times. Psychotherapist and journalist Matthew J. Dempsey has covered many topics in the LGBT community and this week he’s discussing one which affects every human being: age…    

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Study funded to investigate dementia in LGBTQ elders.

Rainbows of Aging — a study of LGBTQ elders’ health concerns from the University of California, San Francisco — has received a grant of $142,974 from the National Institute on Aging, a division of the National Institutes of Health.