Before I write about youth being barred from viewing photos of LGBTQ elders, let me briefly explain why this issue is so close to my heart.
When I was young in 1990, I volunteered at SAGE, a support group for LGBTQ elders that my husband Lenny loved. Lenny was 20 years older than me, but we both knew he would not live to become elderly. Maybe that’s why he identified so much with the elderly queer folks at the SAGE tea dances we helped with every month at Congregation Beit Simchat Torah, sometimes called Manhattan’s unofficial gay synagogue.
The 10 years Lenny and I spent together passed so quickly. They often passed in the company of queer people from SAGE, some of whom became my friends, confidants, and mentors. […]
Click here to read the full piece. This story was originally published by Medium on November 1, 2023.
