GLEH Housing for Gay and Lesbian Seniors

Last week, the Blade invited five LGBT youth and five LGBT elders from the D.C. area to our offices for a roundtable discussion about issues facing the community. With Stonewall’s 40th anniversary later this month and Pride celebrations this weekend, it seemed an apt time to explore some of the generational differences in the community.

Bittersweet Productions and NoCo Media Group are proud to announce the NYC premiere of A Place to Live: The Story of Triangle Square. A feature documentary that focuses on a group of lesbian and gay senior citizens in search of affordable housing,

In June, the queer community will celebrate the 40th anniversary of Stonewall. Along with that celebration comes the reality that many who were on the front lines of the queer civil-rights movement are now on a different front line as the first generation of out elderly queers.

Forty years ago, patrons and supporters of the Stonewall Inn in New York City resisted police harassment that had become all too common for members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community. Out of this resistance, the LGBT rights movement in America was born. During LGBT Pride Month, we commemorate the events of June 1969 and commit to achieving equal justice under law for LGBT Americans.

(Little Rock, Ark., May 12, 2009) — Lambda Legal announced today that it has filed suit in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas against Fox Ridge of North Little Rock, an assisted living facility. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of 75–year–old Reverend Dr. Robert Franke, a retired university provost and Unitarian-Universalist minister, and his daughter, Sara Franke Bowling.

(Little Rock, Arkansas) A federal lawsuit has been filed against an assisted living facility for allegedly evicting a man when it discovered he was HIV-positive. The lawsuit was filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas by Lambda Legal on behalf of 75–year–old Rev. Dr. Robert Franke, a retired university provost and Unitarian-Universalist minister, and his daughter, Sara Franke Bowling.

(Montreal, Quebec) The Quebec government is spending half a million dollars on an education campaign meant to improve the lives of gay, lesbian and transgendered seniors. It’s a subject so taboo that the cabinet minister responsible for seniors and representatives of the gay and lesbian communities couldn’t find a seniors residence willing to host a news conference.