While Darcy Connors was a nursing home administrator in the South, she also operated a COVID-19 recovery center.
Connors and her staff noticed that two of the patients in their charge had a strong connection with one another — they were obviously a couple but were reticent to inform the staff.
“One of the partners was hospitalized, and the other partner wasn’t able to visit him in the hospital,” recalled Connors, who is transgender and is now executive director of New York City-based SAGEServes, which advocates for high-quality, inclusive programming and service-delivery for LGBTQ+ seniors. “They both ended up in the nursing home that I was operating for recovery post-COVID. We knew the connection. You can feel someone’s love for someone else.” (SAGEServes is a division of the larger SAGE organization, which advocates for LGBTQ+ older adults .) [..]
Click here to read the full piece. This story was originally published by AP News on August 29, 2023.
