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LGBT Senior’s Daily Readlines News Roundup
GOP lobbyists and lawmakers across the country have used fearmongering over trans sports and healthcare to rile up their bases.Read moreDate: 2026-03-18Source: LGBTQ Nation
“At every turn, we’re seeing a new kind of cruelty,” said an advocate for the men.Read moreDate: 2026-03-18Source: LGBTQ Nation
The groups sued on behalf of three religious couples.Read moreDate: 2026-03-18Source: LGBTQ NationThe studio is reporting sky-high occupancy rates for its soundstages as it encourages productions under the company umbrella to shoot on Warner Bros. property.Read moreDate: 2026-03-18Source: HOLLYWOOD REPORTER -
LGBT Senior’s Weekly Survey: Smells Like Spring Spirit
Another spring is here (March 20). What do you want to do first?
Get more active without the sweaters and thermals
Garden, plant, walk in the grass, open the windows
Clean out and start fresh (figuratively if not literally)
Nothing — I like my routine as it is
Wait impatiently for summer
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LGBT Senior’s Weekly Humorcope: ‘P’ is for Pisces
Because the universe clearly has a sense of humor.
♈ Aries 🔥
This week you will feel a sudden urge to reorganize something. It may be your closet. It may be your entire life. Start with the closet.♉ Taurus 🌿
Someone will tell you that you’re stubborn. You will calmly explain that you are consistent. Then you will continue doing exactly what you were doing.♊ Gemini 🌀
You’ll have three ideas at once this week. Two will be brilliant. One will involve ordering something online at 2 a.m.♋ Cancer 🌙
Your nurturing instincts kick in this week. Just remember: feeding people is generous, but feeding them again because they “look thin” may cause concern.♌ Leo 🦁
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LGBT Senior’s Tech Talk: Photos, Files and the Cloud (Where Did My Stuff Go?)
By Mark McNease
I can remember when ‘the cloud’ was a new thing, and most people didn’t know what it was or what it meant. Now it’s an inescapable part of our technology landscape. Everything, it seems, is in the cloud, and the cloud itself is spoken of as a singular, godlike place – maybe even heaven – where everything resides and nothing is forgotten.
I still don’t trust it completely, and it requires an internet connection. Its name fits it: the cloud does not exist on our computers, smartphones, or laptops. It seemingly lives ‘up there’ somewhere (keep reading for more on that), and it’s apparently limitless.
I keep my files and photos on my desktop, laptop and phone. Some of them are backed up, which is especially helpful with all the Word and Excel documents I create. Photos? Not so much. They take up a lot of space, and space isn’t free. I don’t really need six pictures of the same thing, the way we tend to take them now with our phones, or even most of the ones I accumulate by the thousands.
So what, exactly, is this cloud? And where did it come from? Can it rain on me? Can it make my life difficult? (Sometimes the answer to that depends on a reliable WiFi connection.) Let’s dive in …
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Mark McNease’s Fearsome Fiction Podcast Bonus: Fatal Mistake – A Harry Hell Novella (Chapters 21 – END)
In addition to my weekly 3-chapter installments of ‘Night Flight to Murder Town: A Marshall James Thriller,’ I’m offering up three extra-long listens of ‘Fatal Mistake: A Harry Hell Novella.’ It’s the first of three novellas planned that take us on the wild journey that is Harry Hell’s life. Queer, dystopian, fearsome.
Fatal Mistake opens in a dying, collapsed world — a ruined island city divided between the fortified enclave of Eastward, where the privileged few cling to order, and the brutal wastelands outside its walls: the Ruins and the Slopes, where survival is the only law.
Two storylines run in parallel. In the present, we meet Harry Hell — a former elite assassin who has spent five years hunting the most dangerous woman alive: a killer known only as Nectar. The story begins with her turning the tables on two of his men sent to find her, slitting one’s throat and sending the other back with a message. Harry is cold, purposeful, and consumed by a single obsession — avenging the death of Raul, his partner and the only person he ever loved, who Nectar killed.
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Mark McNease’s Fearsome Fiction Podcast Extra: Fatal Mistake – A Harry Hell Novella (Chapters 11 – 20)
In addition to my weekly 3-chapter installments of ‘Night Flight to Murder Town: A Marshall James Thriller,’ I’m offering up three extra-long listens of ‘Fatal Mistake: A Harry Hell Novella.’ It’s the first of three novellas planned that take us on the wild journey that is Harry Hell’s life. Queer, dystopian, fearsome.
Fatal Mistake opens in a dying, collapsed world — a ruined island city divided between the fortified enclave of Eastward, where the privileged few cling to order, and the brutal wastelands outside its walls: the Ruins and the Slopes, where survival is the only law.
Two storylines run in parallel. In the present, we meet Harry Hell — a former elite assassin who has spent five years hunting the most dangerous woman alive: a killer known only as Nectar. The story begins with her turning the tables on two of his men sent to find her, slitting one’s throat and sending the other back with a message. Harry is cold, purposeful, and consumed by a single obsession — avenging the death of Raul, his partner and the only person he ever loved, who Nectar killed.
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The Twist Podcast 321: Fabulous Foot Massages, Philly Fun Times, and Rick Talks to Guns to Gardens
Welcome to The Twist Podcast, Episode 321. Join co-hosts Mark and Rick as we adjust to the time change, check out Mark’s trip to Philadelphia, hear Rick’s interview with Guns to Gardens, and find out what listeners spend on their pets.
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Mark McNease’s Fearsome Fiction Podcast 82: Night Flight to Murder Town – A Marshall James Thriller (Chapters 13 thru 15)
Welcome back to Fearsome Fiction, and to Night Flight to Murder Town: A Marshall James Thriller.
When we last left Marshall, he was stepping into a world he wasn’t sure he could step back out of. Now in New York City he’s about to find out just how deep the rabbit hole goes.
Chapter Thirteen drops Marshall into Trent’s world with all its chrome and white leather and carefully curated secrets. The apartment on the Upper East Side tells you everything you need to know about how far Trent has come, and how far he’s willing to go to stay there.Chapter Fourteen takes us downtown to the Village in all its complicated glory. The AIDS crisis hangs over everything like bad weather. The neighborhood is changing, the gays are moving north to Chelsea, and the yuppies are moving in behind them. Trent walks him through his little empire , a bar called Tipsy’s, a gym called Muscles, and the growing sense that whoever Trent is laundering money for is not someone you want to disappoint.
Chapter Fifteen brings us forward in time to Lambertville, New Jersey where Marshall and Boo arrive at Passion House Bed and Breakfast. A man named Kyle Callahan tends flowers on the porch. His handyman Justin helps. His husband Danny waits inside. It appears a new day may be at hand.
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New Feature at LGBT Senior: A Weekly Journaling Prompt – Making Up Our Minds
I’ve been conducting thematic journaling workshops for two years now. I always start them with a short writing prompt everyone can do in ten minutes or less. I’ll be putting these on LGBTSr now as well. Ready, set, write! – Mark
This week’s writing prompt
March can’t make up its mind. One day it’s a winter coat, the next day it’s a windbreaker. Two days ago it was 82 degrees, now it’s freezing.
But March isn’t the only one hedging. Many of us have something in our lives right now that can’t quite decide what it wants to be — a relationship in a holding pattern, a project that keeps almost getting started, a metamorphosis that has us half-caterpillar, half-butterfly.
Write about your own “coat or no coat” moment. What in your life is stuck between two things right now — between starting and stopping, staying and leaving, hoping and letting go? What would it feel like to finally just decide?
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LGBT Senior’s One Thing or Another: Life, Aging, and the Absurdities Of It All – The Go-Go Years
By Mark McNease
The Go-Go Years: Doing, Going, Seeing While We Can
My husband Frank talks a lot these days about our ‘Go-Go’ years, that time of life we’re in when it’s probably a good idea to do the travel we want to, go to the places we’d like to see, and do the things our bodies still permit us to do. We love to cruise, and sail away on at least two a year. But we also like to take short, two-night trips here and there, and even a long one coming up in April – my first road trip since I was a child. Eight nights, with stops in Roanoke, Savannah, Wilmington, and Baltimore. That’s a lot of travelogues!
Financial advisors use the term to describe this window of time — early retirement, roughly — when we’re healthy enough to move about unaided. I’m exaggerating, but that’s the basic premise. I also have to say I don’t refer to myself as retired, since I teach workshops, write scary novels, and create the kind of content you’re reading now. This time precedes the Slow-Go years, and finally the No-Go years, which seem self-defining.
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On the Map: Fabulous Philly – The Morris House Hotel, Walnut Street Theater, and Dining at Talula’s Garden (SLIDESHOW)
We made another two-night trip to Philadelphia, this time with our friends Phil and Jim. Since moving from New York, I’ve come to see Philly as my city, given that it’s only an hour’s drive or train ride away. And we can ride the SEPT trains for free as seniors!
There are cities you visit and cities you inhabit, even briefly. Philadelphia is the latter kind, at least when you do it right. Two nights isn’t and days aren’t nearly enough to explore everything there is to see, including the reknown murals you’ll see as you walk around, but it’s exactly enough to fall into a particular pocket of it and feel you’ve touched something marvelous.
Where We Stayed: The Morris House Hotel
The Morris House Hotel sits at 225 S. 8th Street in the heart of the city’s historic district, and it announces itself quietly — no marquee, no lobby spectacle, just a Federal-era townhouse that has been standing since the 18th century and knows it doesn’t have to try very hard. Our large bed had a mattress so soft and sinking that it’s possible George Washington really did sleep there. The staff is terrific, and we don’t say anywhere else when we’re there overnight.
The original family who built it in 1787 was part of Philadelphia’s colonial gentry, and the remnants of that world are still there: period details, a walled garden courtyard, and rooms that manage to feel both old and comfortable.
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Savvy Senior: Top Senior Scams and How to Avoid Them
By JimMiller
Dear Savvy Senior,
My adult kids keep warning me about scams, but it’s hard to know which calls and messages are dangerous. What scams are most commonly aimed at seniors right now?
–Almost 80
Dear Almost,
Your kids’ concerns are well founded. Financial fraud is a massive – and rapidly growing – problem for older Americans. In 2024 alone, scams cost older adults an estimated $81.5 billion, according to the Federal Trade Commission. That staggering figure includes both reported losses and the many crimes that likely go unreported.
While many scams today target people of all ages, older adults are often singled out or suffer the greatest financial harm. From urgent phone calls and alarming emails to online romance schemes and bogus investment opportunities, scammers use high-pressure tactics, fear and emotional manipulation to convince seniors to hand over money or sensitive personal information.
Knowing the most common scams is the first line of defense. Here’s a list of scams seniors should watch for:
Imposter and government scams: Fraudsters pretend to be from Social Security, Medicare, the IRS, the police, banks, or utility companies. They claim there’s a problem requiring immediate payment or personal information and may threaten arrest or loss of benefits.
