Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr Agg

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• LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR AGG

LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR AGG

But viss to senr livg muni left them worried that after s of livg openly, marchg pri paras and raisg money for gay , they wouldn’t feel as ee their later years. So three years ago, they moved across the untry to Rose Villa, a hillsi senr livg plex jt outsi of Portland that actively reach out to gay, lbian and transgenr senrs. As openly gay and lbian people age, they will creasgly rely on regivers and move to assisted livg muni and nursg hom.

“It is a very ser challenge for many LGBT olr people, ” said Michael Adams, chief executive officer of SAGE, or Servic and Advocy for Gay, Lbian, Bisexual and Transgenr Elrs.

5 ln gay, lbian and bisexual people over 65 livg the U. Natnwi, advocy groups are phg to improve ndns and expand optns for gay and lbian senrs. SAGE staff are also trag provirs at nursg hom and elsewhere to provi a more supportive environment for elrly gays and lbians.

Or uld be a matter of tg other rints and offerg activi specific to the LGBTQ muny like gay-iendly movi or lectur. Mizelle, 64, and Fisher, 86, said they found the support they hoped for at Rose Villa, where they live a ground-floor ttage near the muny garn and spend their time socializg wh other rints, both gay and straight. But many agg gays and lbians — the generatn that protted for gay rights at Stonewall, state pols and on the steps of the Supreme Court — may not be livg such welg environments.

This summer, Lambda Legal, a gay advocy group, filed a lawsu agast the Glen Sat Andrew Livg Communy, a senr rintial facily Nil, Illois, for failg to protect a disabled lbian woman om harassment, discrimatn and vlence. Karen Loewy, Wetzel’s attorney at Lambda Legal, said senr livg facili are “totally ill-prepared” for this populatn of openly gay elrs. Many elrly gay and lbian people have difficulty fdg hog at all, acrdg to a 2010 report by several advocy anizatns partnership wh the feral Amerin Society on Agg.

Another report 2014 by the Equal Rights Center, a natnal nonprof civil rights anizatn, revealed that the applitn procs was more difficult and hog more expensive for gay and lbian senrs. Regnizg the need for more affordable hog, the Los Angel Gay & Lbian Elr Hog anizatn opened Triangle Square Apartments 2007.

Tanya Wt, rint servic ordator for the Los Angel LGBT Center, said some of the Triangle Square rints are reluctant to have -home regivers — even their current hog — bee they worry they won’t be gay-iendly. In addn to facg mon health problems as they age, gay and lbian senrs also may be alg wh addnal strsors, isolatn or prsn, said Alexia Torke, an associate profsor of medice at Indiana Universy. Lbian, gay and bisexual elrs are at higher risk of mental health problems and disabili and have higher rat of smokg and excsive alhol nsumptn.

In addn, olr gay men are disproportnately affected by some chronic diseas, cludg hypertensn, acrdg to rearch out of UCLA.