Applications now open for LGBTQ+ senior housing at Pryde in Hyde Park
Applications are now available to live in The Pryde, the Bay State's first affordable housing project for LGBTQ seniors in the state. The Pryde will occupy the entire, renovated Rogers School in the...
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. Lisa Krinsky, Director, and Bob Linscott, Assistant Director of The...
Bay State passes LGBT awareness training for aging services into law
This just in from Fenway Health:
Gov. Charlie Baker signed into law late last week “An Act Relative to LGBT Awareness Training for Aging Services Providers.” The first-in-the-nation law will require that all state funded...
Mass. Commission on LGBT Aging brings key concerns front and center
At Massachusetts Commission on LGBT Aging's most recent listening session, hosted by and held at Fenway Health, older LGBT adults raised concerns ranging from the ability of assisted living and nursing home facilities to...
LGBT elders of color create new group for support and some socializing
A new social group for Boston's LGBT elders of color has formed. Flashback Sundays is a place where lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender older adults of color and their friends. allies and supporters can meet...
Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley slams GOP for cutting funds for The Pryde, LGBTQ senior housing...
Late yesterday, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (Mass.) issued the following statement after the Republican majority on the House Transportation, Housing, and Urban Development Committee removed community project funding in support of LGBTQ organizations from Fiscal...
EqualityMaine and SAGE Maine announce merger to better serve growing community
One thing we all have in common is that we all grow older—and together we're doing it a lot faster, as SAGE Maine estimates: Todays LGBTQ older adults in the US number 3 million...
Maine Human Rights Commission advances transgender discrimination case against assisted living facility
This just in from GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD):
The Maine Human Rights Commission by a 3-2 vote today issued a finding of reasonable grounds that an assisted living...
Better quality of life for older adults undergoing gender-affirmation treatment, Yale study shows
A new national study conducted by researchers at Yale University shows that older transgender adults undergoing gender-affirming treatment, including medication and surgery, enjoy a better quality of life than those who do not.
“Even though...
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....
