Boston musicians set older LGBTQ life experiences to music
Our current LGBTQ elders lived in a time that barely resembles the world today. For starters, homosexuality was against the law in all 50 states and there was no acceptance, protections or community supports....
Senior Spirit Nov|Dec 2017 column: The Coming Back Out Ball
In October I was asked to represent Fenway Health, The LGBT Aging Project and the city of Boston as a keynote speaker for a national conference on LGBTI Aging in Australia. This included being...
There’s no place like (Mount Pleasant) home for seven LGBT seniors
The concerns for losing one’s independence later in life are pretty universal for older adults, but those who are LGBTQ hold even greater worries. At the top...
Then and now: Part II, Now it’s Gabi’s time to live: Transitioning at 60
Gabi Morgan, 65, from Jamaica Plain is becoming a fixture not only in her own community of JP but also with older trans and gender diverse adults...
Then and now: Part I, David’s story, transitioning in the 1970s
“There was no word for it, no language, no history, no information, no support systems and no role models.” This is how David Weekley, 70, from Hull, describes...
This is the moment: LGBTQ-friendly senior housing in Massachusetts
There are so many indicators that determine if a city is truly inclusive and welcoming to the LGBTQ community. For some, it is having an LGBT community center, while other cities boast about how...
How the pandemic is helping to launch a virtual LGBTQ Senior Center in the...
Since the coronavirus changed the social landscape for everyone all over the world, many groups and organizations pivoted to reconnect people using online platforms like Zoom and Webex....
Celebrating the women who shaped our LGBTQ community in Boston
It is too easy to sit back and believe that history is written by the contributions of our forefathers because that’s what we were told in school. Look behind every movement, every significant moment...
LGBT Seniors Share Stories about the First Boston Pride Marches
For anyone under 45, it may be hard to imagine the range of emotions that surface as seniors share their stories of early Prides. These gathering were not parades or celebrations in those first...
Stories of our inheritance: Boston’s LGBT Elders of Color
On September 8, the LGBT Elders of Color, a program of the Multicultural AIDS Coalition (MAC), hosted an evening of live storytelling called “Stories of our Inheritance:...
