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California group helps aging LGBT community face challenges.

Older adults in the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community face unique challenges as they become more vulnerable and are forced to depend on outside services for care and assistance. That’s the belief of the LGBT Aging Coalition of Ventura County, which was formed in late 2015 to bring together allies and members of the LGBT community.

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Here I am, 60 and gay in tech.

Behold my epic legend and hard-earned techniques for surviving as a graying, gay man in tech. I’ve worked in the field for close to 35 years and alternative newspapers before that. I was always interested in changing the status quo through media and associated myself with organizations where I felt I could make a difference.  

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This 83-year-old gay man just broke into porn.

Age is just a number. Like 69. YouTuber Davey Wavey, who launched his gay adult site Himeros in December, released a new porn video this week featuring a solo from an 83-year-old newcomer named Norm. Directed by Daniel Cardone, the unconventional clip, Blessing of the Elder, also features veteran twink porn stars Blake Mitchell and Joey Mills.

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Top 20 cities for LGBT-friendly retirement in 2018.

SeniorAdvice.com, one of the nation’s top senior housing referral services, released a list of America’s top cities for gay-friendly retirement today. This is the second annual list of best cities for LGBT seniors by SeniorAdvice.com and compared to the previous list, there were many additions as well as multiple repeats.

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Senior housing needs to increase its diversity competency especially when it comes to LGBT seniors.

With so many boomers in the workforce, employers have become attuned to the need to provide workplaces that are more welcoming of career-oriented women and diverse people. Corporate America and academia implemented policies and training programs fostering inclusion for employees of various races, nationalities, religions and physical abilities, as well as…

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Lesbian senior’s discrimination case could clear the way for LGBT housing rights.

Marsha Wetzel, 70, is suing her senior living home for failing to protect her from the verbal and physical attacks from other residents because she is an out lesbian, and the ruling could set a precedent. Wetzel has said she barricades herself in her room at night while she is sleeping, because she doesn’t feel safe while…

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What can we learn from our gay elders?

Across the country, from Stonewall to the Black Cat to Compton’s Cafeteria, the queer youth of the 1950s, 60s and 70s worked hard to fight against oppression and intolerance. Today, one full year into the Trump Administration, we’re looking back at how the protests and cultural movements of the past have shaped L.A.’s current queer culture.