Dear Dan: I’m a 40-something gay male. I’m single and cannot get a date or even a hookup. I’m short, overweight, average-looking and bald. I see others, gay and straight, having long-term relationships…
An assisted living facility may have violated the Fair Housing Act when it failed to protect a lesbian senior from physical and verbal abuse by other residents. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit Aug. 27 found that…
A federal appeals court in Chicago has found that the U.S. Fair Housing Act places obligations on landlords to protect LGBT tenants from harassment by other tenants. Monday night’s ruling by the 7th U.S. Court of Appeals sides with 70-year-old Marsha Wetzel. She accused a suburban Chicago senior living center of doing…
A 74-year-old woman cried tears of joy when a Utah state judge took the rare step of declaring her and her longtime lesbian partner legally married just months after her wife died. Judge Patrick Corum last week declared Bonnie Foerster legally married to Beverly Grossaint, who died in May in Salt Lake City at age 82, the Salt Lake Tribune reported…
A project to open an LGTB friendly retirement home has been given the green light by authorities in Madrid with plans to open it by the end of the year. A building in the Villaverde district in the south of Madrid has been earmarked to house the retirement home, which will be…
It’s never fun to admit your vulnerability, perceived or otherwise, and it goes against our IG-saturated, social-media world to post about problematic life subjects. But, heck, as older gay men, the more we open up about those “closed” topics, the more we can relate, and help, one another not just surive but thrive late into a glorious old age.
A new study finds queer seniors get dementia at different numbers than straight people, and makes clear more research is necessary. Most of us don’t like to think about getting older, although we admit it beats the alternative. But there are a lot of older LGBT people — and will be even more in the next decades — and as we age…
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