Bob Linscott

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Rainbow flag overcomes challenge to welcome all at Natick Senior Center

The small movement started with the purest of intents. Susan Ramsey, director of the Natick Senior Center, wanted to begin the work to become...

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...

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....

Thriving social scene emerging for LGBT older adults in Western Mass.

Decades ago there were sizeable migrations of LGBT adults moving to larger cities where people found strength in numbers. In these newly established gay...

AIDS survivor’s story: A black lesbian’s struggle for answers

In the early 1980s, Shirley Royster, an African American lesbian, knew something was wrong. She saw people in the black community dying at an...

Landmark executive order collects sexual orientation, gender ID data for elders in Bay State

(Editor’s note: This article appears in the current July/August 2016 print edition of Boston Spirit magazine. Subscribe for free today.) May 11, 2016 was a landmark date...

Boston seniors: Don’t let 2016 Pride parade pass you by

(Editor’s note: This article appears in the current May/June 2016 print edition of Boston Spirit magazine. Subscribe for free today.) Some call it the High Holy...

LGBT senior housing in the Bay State: What we can learn from ‘The Golden Girls’

Over the past four months, as a member of the LGBT Aging Project, I have had the opportunity to travel across the state of...

LGBT Aging Project launches new program to alleviate elder isolation

Have you ever paused to recognize how many circles of people we are connected to? For many of us we have a core set...

White House Summit on LGBT Elder Housing Attended by Local Leaders

On February 10, three Boston experts on LGBT elder issues were invited to attend a National Summit on LGBT Aging at The White House....

On the Importance of Aging in the LGBT Community, by Bob Linscott

"The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected." — Robert Frost Perhaps to our dismay, we are not Peter Pan, because the truth is we are...
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