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SENR ACTN A GAY ENVIRONMENT (SAGE)
SAGE (Senr Actn a Gay Environment) of South Florida is a nonprof anizatn that enrich the liv of the LGBT senr muny through membership clive of age, genr, race, natnaly, and relign. Rose Tree Place managers were asked to read a three-page timele of beg gay Ameri veloped by SAGE, the advocy anizatn for LGBTQ+ senrs behd the trag.
Many of the Media muny’s rints were born the 1920s and ’30s, a time when police raid gay bars and the Navy persecuted gay soldiers, when gay men Nazi ncentratn mps wore pk triangl. Banned gay immigrants and the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn listed homosexualy as a mental disorr. The trend is occurrg at a time when overt discrimatn agast gay elrs ntu.
Terri Clark, a Philalphia woman who serv on the Amerin Society on Agg’s learship uncil on LGBTQ+ agg and is also a SAGE traer, said bias agast gay rints n also be more subtle. “We’ve heard of people beg prayed over hospice re” by staffers who thought gay rints need to repent before they died, she said. Advot say that open discsn of LGBTQ+ ncerns helps not only current and potential rints, but also employe and gay relativ of rints.