RESOURCES
    FOR
    Aging Issues in the LGBT Communities

    LINKS
    • LGBT Aging Issues Network: A Constituent Group of the American Society on Aging

    • Challenges Facing LGBT Elders: Information from the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force

    • Ask the Experts about General LGBT Aging Issues: Presented by SAGE (Service and Advocacy for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Elders); Harold Kooden (Clinical Psychologist) and Kenneth Stewart (Village Care NY) answer questions about senior housing, socializing, dealing with loss, coming out and more.

    • Problem Definition and Agenda-Setting: LGBT Aging Issues (an academic paper by Mona Noriega, Faculty, Public Administration Program, University of Illinois at Chicago; she also served as the Regional Director of the Midwest Office of Lambda Legal Defense.

    • LGBT Aging and Long-Term Care Fairness Survey: This survey is only 16 questions and should take no more than ten minutes to complete. (NOTE: Deadline for submission is December 15, 2009.)

    • Transgender Aging: The Graying of Transgender: from the American Public Health Association

    • Aging in Transgender People: An Annotated Bibliography from Trans-Health.com

    • PUBLIC POLICY ISSUES AFFECTING GAY, LESBIAN, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER ELDERS by Sean Cahill, Ken South and Jane Spade, from Outing Age, the Public Policy Institute of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Foundation.

    NEW YORK RESOURCES BY AREA

    New York City

      GRIOT Circle
      Glen Francis,. 30 3rd Avenue, Suite 212 Brooklyn, NY 11217-1822 (718.246.2775) www.griotcircle.org
      An intergenerational and culturally diverse community based organization serving older LGBT persons, especially Elders of Color.

      The LGBT Community Center
      208 West 13th Street, New York, NY 10011 (212.620.7310)
      The largest LGBT multi-service organization on the East Coast and second largest LGBT center in the world, the center provides social services, public policy, educational and cultural/recreational programs.

      SAGE: Services and Advocacy for GLBT Elders
      305 W. Seventh Avenue, 16th Floor New York, NY 10001 (212.741.2247)
      The world's oldest & largest organization working to meet the needs of aging GLBT persons with direct services, education, and advocacy.

      SAGE/ Queens (click on programs, senior services, senior centers)
      74-09 37th Avenue, Room 409, Jackson Heights, NY 11372 (718.533.6459)
      A clubhouse program of the Forest Hills Community House with classes, discussion groups, and other activities for LGBT older adults. ktaylor@fhch.org

    Hudson Valley

      The LOFT: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Community Center (click on programs; Senior Silver Connections)
      180 East Post Road, White Plains, NY 10601 (914-948-2932)
      Services of the center include a Silver Connections, a Senior Outreach Program which provides social, recreational, and cultural activities for LGBT seniors 55 years and older.

    Central New York

      SAGE/Upstate
      PO Box 6271, Syracuse NY 13217 or 316 Catherine Street (315.478.1923)
      Serves LGBT seniors citizens in Central New York with heath and wellness programming, support, advocacy, and educational services.

    Western New York

      Gay Alliance of the Genesee Valley
      875 E. Main St., #500, Rochester, NY, 14605 (585.244.8640)
      A coalition of individuals and groups, serves GLBT persons with education and advocacy programs.

      Rainbow Seniors of Western New York
      305 Pearl Street, Rochester, NY 14607 (585.442.636)
      Provides services that promote quality living and address specific life issues affecting the general welfare of older gays, lesbians, bisexuals, transgender, and intersex (GLBTI) individuals.

    PUBLICATIONS

      Adams, C.L., & Kimmel, D.C. (1997). Exploring the lives of older African American Gay Men.
             In B. Greene (Ed.), Ethnic and cultural diversity among lesbians
             and gay men, pp. 132-151. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

      American Public Health Association: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Health Issues:
             Selections from the American Journal of Public Health. 2001

      Brooksdale Center on Aging of Hunter College and Senior Action in a Gay Environment, (April 1999).
             Assisted housing for elderly gays and lesbians in New York City:
             Extent of need and the preferences of elderly gays and lesbians      .
             New York, Hunter College and SAGE, p. 16.

      Hunter, Ski, Ph.D.. Midlife and older LGBT adults: Knowledge and affirmation practice for
             social services      . Haworth, 2005

      Minter, Shannon. Legal and public policy issues for transgender elders. National Center
             for Lesbian Rights, 2002, 2003

      OUTWARD, the Newsletter of the Lesbian and Gay Aging Issues Network (LGAIN) of the American Society
             on Aging.       Published quarterly. See especially, Summer, 1995: Educating Senior Services Agencies about the Needs of Lesbian and Gay Elders; and Fall
             2001: A Survey of Resources on LGBT Aging. OUTWARD archives
             can be found on www.asaging.org;

      Quam, Jean K. (Ed.).. Social services for senior gay men and lesbians. Monograph
             published simultaneously as The Journal of Gay & Lesbian
             Social Services      , Vol 2, No. 1, Haworth Press, 1997

      Weinberg, M.S., Williams, C.J., & Pryor, D.W.. Bisexuals at midlife: Commitment, salience,
             and identity.       Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 30,
             180-208, 2001

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