Senior living is already a service that is out of reach for millions of older adults in the U.S. For gay and trans older adults, that is especially true. A new report from the Milken Institute [...]
Wesley Adolphus Pinkney, 71, never imagined he might get to spend his golden years at an independent living community for LGBTQ+ seniors. At one point in time, he didn’t think he’d [...]
Kasha Nabagesera is widely regarded as the Mother of the Ugandan LGBTQ+ human rights movement. As one of the most prominent human rights activists of our time, she is no stranger to speaking [...]
In 1989, Ronald Johnson did not think he would live to see old age. Johnson, a Black gay man, was diagnosed with HIV that year, during the height of the U.S. AIDS epidemic, when the life [...]
Thanks to 40 years of dedicated research, public education, and medical breakthroughs, HIV in the United States has become largely preventable—a manageable condition for people who are connected [...]
For years, White House press conferences included sign language interpreters for the deaf. No longer. Interpreters have been noticeably absent from Trump administration press briefings, advocacy [...]
Some big companies across the U.S., not to mention the federal government, are backtracking on diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging. Senior living operators are not following suit. In [...]
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Division of HIV Prevention may be in trouble, according to today’s announcement from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services stating [...]
A public health crisis akin to the HIV pandemic in the 1980s could be on the horizon, experts say, should the Trump administration go through with its reported idea of ridding the CDC of the [...]
Karla Jay remembers joining the second night of street protests during the 1969 Stonewall uprising in New York City. For her, and for so many other LGBTQ+ people, something had shifted: People [...]
Sitting on a bench next to his friend Roosevelt Adams, 81-year-old Michael Palumbaro says he is filled with gratitude. “I never thought that I would become a senior,” he says. “Because I tested [...]
I don’t really know the people around me. That’s the feeling Caitlin Cunningham, a Missouri coffeehouse owner, has had after the 2024 election. Cunningham, who is nonbinary, has moments of [...]
Federal agencies are carrying out executive orders from President Donald Trump that all share a common goal: removing transgender and nonbinary people from public life wherever possible. Through [...]
When President Donald Trump tells Congress what he accomplished during his first six weeks in office, he’ll probably point to a flurry of executive orders that froze contracts and slashed [...]
SAGE Center Bronx, an older adult center across the street from Crotona Park, has been named a Ready New York Older Adult Center of the Year in recognition of its emergency preparedness efforts. [...]
I was born in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1944. My family lived next door to my grandparents, with my grandfather being the last of the slaves in the South. My mother was a Reverend. In our house, [...]
After the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued a memo attempting to freeze federal grants and other financial assistance, SAGE — the nation’s largest and oldest organization dedicated to [...]
A dwindling majority of Americans say openly transgender men and women should be able to serve in the U.S. military despite the Trump administration’s reinstatement of a ban on transgender [...]
A federal judge has determined the Trump administration is violating a temporary restraining order by continuing to improperly freeze federal funds—including those related to National Institutes [...]
Are chasers okay? Is polyamory too messy? Is T4T dating no better than dating cis people? Is a dive bar a bad first date spot? Trans women between the ages of 20 and 50+ agree to disagree as they [...]
