by Diverse Elders | Mar 27, 2020
This release originally appeared on the SAGE website on March 26, 2020. [New York, NY] Today, the Older Americans Act reauthorization was signed into law with provisions that will help ensure that LGBT elders get the services and support they need to remain...
by Diverse Elders | Jan 28, 2020
by SAGE Communications In Fall 2019, the SAGE team jetted to Los Angeles and Miami to produce our national LGBT Speed Mentoring program. Just like ‘speed dating,’ a speed mentoring includes facilitated one-on-one conversations and time to mingle. Cue cards prompt...
by Diverse Elders | Jan 1, 2020
by Dr. Marcy Adelman. This article originally appeared in the San Francisco Bay Times. In November of 2018, the San Francisco Department of Aging and Adult Services (DAAS) released its study, LGBTQ Participation Equity Analysis, which reported what can only be...
by Diverse Elders | Dec 19, 2019
by Lois A. Bowers. This article originally appeared on McKnight’s Senior Living. It was mid-April when I first told you about the launch of a new nationwide tool by elder advocacy group SAGE and the Human Rights Campaign Foundation to assess how well independent...
by Marsha Aizumi | Nov 12, 2019
November is Transgender Awareness Month. I am so proud to share this video from Mia Frances Yamamoto, who transitioned at the age of 60 to be her true self. I call her my radical warrior friend, not only because of who she is, but because of the work that she does...