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The Twist Podcast #169: Hello September, One War’s End, Clapton’s Claptrap, and the Week in Headlines
Join co-hosts Mark McNease and Rick Rose as we welcome September, reflect on the end of the war in Afghanistan, Big Boo tired guitar god Eric Clapton, and take a look at the headlines.
Enjoy The Twist on Libsyn, iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, and TheTwistPodcast.com.
Copyright 2021 MadeMark Publishing
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EVENTS: Philly Pride Returns September 4
When: September 4, 2021
Where: Starts at the Grand Plaza at Penn’s Landing
Time: 12:00 pm kickoffAbout Philly Pride
Philadelphia is home to some of the oldest events associated with LGBTQ pride in the United States. One of those events is Pride Day, which takes place on the second weekend of June. It encourages guests to share their own stories and experiences about coming out and to help others in need. The Philly Pride Festival usually takes place from Friday to Sunday every year, and always promises a colorful scene!
The Lesbian and Gay Task Force established a small office in Love Park in the 1980s and decided to host a Philadelphia Pride event that was open to the public. Several hundred people came out for the first parade and festival in 1988. In 2018, the organization celebrated the 30th anniversary of the event. Philly Gay Pride Weekend is now one of the largest events of its type in Pennsylvania.
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Alzheimer’s Association Offers LGBTQ Community Resources for Dementia
I’ll be speaking with Stephen Dolainski soon on an upcoming One Thing or Another Podcast about his experience as a caregiver for a friend with dementia, and about Alzheimer’s Los Angeles’ support group for LGBTQ caregivers. – Mark/Editor
From the Alzheimer’s Association
The LGBTQ community may face particular challenges related to Alzheimer’s and dementia, including finding inclusive and welcoming health care providers, less ability to call upon adult children for assistance, concerns about stigma and higher rates of poverty and social isolation.
Dementia and the LGBTQ community
These documents from the Alzheimer’s Association describe the issues that members of the LGBTQ community and their loved ones experience and offer guidance for navigating these challenges.
- Issues Brief: LGBT and Dementia, a collaboration with SAGE, outlines specific issues of concern related to LGBTQ people with dementia, including stigma, family composition, poverty and social isolation.
- LGBTQ Older Adults and Dementia is a guide for LGBTQ community members living with Alzheimer’s or other dementia.
- This infographic on the LGBTQ community and dementia includes important information about the LGBTQ community and dementia, including data about the challenges members of the community face accessing care.
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On the Map: Taking the Provincetown Cure
By Mark McNease
On the Map is a travelogue of places, restaurants and landscapes for your travel considerations. Sometimes near, sometimes far, always interesting.
Last year I said, ‘It’s been a year,’ never expecting 2021 to be just as stressful. New president, new Covid variant, new expectations, new disappointments.
What better way to get away from it all than with an annual trip to Provincetown, Massachusetts? We have a timeshare there. My husband Frank has had it since 1985, and among all the things he’s saved over the years is his first ID card for the complex, complete with a photo from 36 years ago. It’s reserved for us the 34th week of every year, which is always at the end of August. For most of our time together (15 years), we didn’t go. I’d never been to Ptown. I’d read about it, but I had no personal experience of the place. Then, four years ago, we started making the trip. And I love it! Except the excruciating drive, which I’ll explain.
The timeshare is in a complex called Eastwood at Provincetown. It’s a very nice place, with a variety of unit sizes. Ours is a one-bedroom, two-bath, with a full kitchen, living room, and a sofa bed that’s too narrow to comfortably lie on but works if you have more than two people staying there. Each unit has a small deck area outside, with a modest size swimming pool in the courtyard. We’re on the second floor, and it’s nice to sit outside having coffee while other guests are downstairs at the pool. A lot of those guests are lesbians and gay men. And being a timeshare, you often see the same people year after year, as well as ones you’ll only meet once.
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The Weekly Readlines August 25
BIG CUP: THE WEEK’S TOP STORIESMaybe this should be called The End Times Tribune instead, considering the state of the world.
Afghanistan continues to suck up all the desert air in the room, providing plenty of ammunition for people with their hate phasers aimed at President Biden, including a breathless and hyperventilating media that hasn’t been this frothed up since Trump was president.
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EVENTS: Provincetown Events Calendar (Since We’re Here Anyway!)
We’re enjoying our annual trip to Provincetown, with a time share this week every year. This is one of my favorite vacation spots, even with the interminable drive from our home in New Jersey. There’s a lot going on in and around PTown throughout the year, so here’s a link to their events calendar. Check it out, sign up for something, and enjoy!
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Survey Says: It’s a Tie! LGBTSr Subscriber Email Results
The survey results are in: 40 percent of respondents would like to see the LGBTSr subscriber email delivered every two weeks. And the ones who’d like to see it every Friday? 40 percent!
What’s the editor and publisher of a popular website for the over-50 LGBTQ audience to do? I’ll be splitting the baby: sending out the newsletter every two weeks until I have a little more to offer you, then moving to the every Friday schedule I had in the beginning 10 years ago. Hopefully by the time I retire next April I’ll have lots to share with subscribers, and maybe another contributor or three. Until then, enjoy LGBTSr delivered to your virtual doorstep every two weeks. Subscribe here! And thanks for taking the survey.
Mark McNease, Editor
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Savvy Senior: How to Buy the Best Blood Pressure Monitor for You
Listen to my podcast interview with Savvy Senior’s Jim Miller here.By Jim Miller
Dear Savvy Senior,
I just found out I have stage 1 hypertension and my doctor recommended I get a home blood pressure monitor to keep an eye on it. Can you offer me any tips on choosing a good one?
Hypertensive Helen
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Book Review: How We Do Family: From Adoption to Trans Pregnancy, What We Learned About Love and LGBTQ Parenthood, by Trystan Reese
By Terri Schlichenmeyer
The Bookworm Sez
How We Do Family: From Adoption to Trans Pregnancy, What We Learned About Love and LGBTQ Parenthood, by Trystan Reese
c.2021, The Experiment
$24.95 / $32.95 Canada 216 pagesThere is no picket fence in front of your house.
There’s no singing milkman to bring your breakfast and the next door neighbor doesn’t coffee-klatsch with you every morning after your two-point-five kids go to school. There’s not, in fact, one 1962-normal thing about your home or your family but as in the new memoir, “How We Do Family” by Trystan Reese, what you’ve got is better.
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Ronni Sanlo’s This Day in LGBTQ History (August 13 – 19)
Ronni Sanlo’s This Day in LGBTQ History makes the past ever-present with daily rundowns of historic events and people.
Ronni Sanlo
This Day in LGBTQ HistoryAUGUST 19
1867, GermanyIn Munich, Karl Heinrich Ulrichs (28 August 1825 – 14 July 1895) is jeered when he attempts to persuade jurists that same-sex love should be tolerated rather than persecuted. He is probably the first to come out publicly in defense of what he calls “Uranism” (homosexuality). Ulrichs coined various terms to describe different sexual orientations, including Urning for a man who desires men (English “Uranian”) and Dioning for one who desires women. These terms are in reference to a section of Plato’s Symposium in which two kinds of love are discussed, symbolized by an Aphrodite who is born from a male (Uranos) and an Aphrodite who is born from a female (Dione). Ulrichs also coined words for the female counterparts (Urningin and Dioningin) and for bisexuals and intersexual persons. Ulrichs is likely the first true gay activist and is seen today as the pioneer of the modern gay rights movement. Published in 1870, Ulrich’s Araxes: A Call to Free the Nature of the Urning from Penal Law is remarkable for its similarity to the discourse of the modern gay rights movement. In it “the Urning, too, is a person. He, too, therefore, has inalienable rights. His sexual orientation is a right established by nature. Legislators have no right to veto nature; no right to persecute nature in the course of its work; no right to torture living creatures who are subject to those drives nature gave them. The Urning is also a citizen. He, too, has civil rights; and according to these rights, the state has certain duties to fulfill as well. The state does not have the right to act on whimsy or for the sheer love of persecution. The state is not authorized, as in the past, to treat Urnings as outside the pale of the law.” -
One Thing or Another Podcast: Amy Simon, President of LGBT Senior Housing and Care, Joins the Show
It’s good to be back after a short hiatus, and to have as my guest Amy Simon, President of LGBT Senior Housing and Care. Join me for a conversation with Amy about her background, her dedication to the LGBTQ+ senior population, and the vital services provided by the organization.
Amy Simon, CEO/President Amy is President of LGBT Senior Housing and Care and the founding director of the LGBTSHC program. Amy is the president of ASimonSays,LLC a WBE public and community relations firm since 2003. ASimonSays specializes in public relations, advocacy policy initiatives and reputation management for agencies, small business, not-for-profits , healthcare, manufacturing, service industries and the arts. Learn more about Amy at www.asimonsays.com
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3 Book Reviews from Sue Katz: The Vanishing Self, Notes on a Scandal, and The Dream Lover
The following is reprinted with permission from Sue Katz: Consenting Adult.
By Sue Katz
3 Book Reviews
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
This recent novel became an instant best-seller and it is a compelling read indeed. Twin sisters grow up in a small Louisiana town predominated by light-skinned Black people. When the sisters strike out on their own to New Orleans, one sister “accidentally” passes for white and marries her white boss and has a blond daughter, while the other weds an abusive dark-skinned man and births a very dark girl. The divergence in their lives, in their fates, deprived of contact with each other, motors this story.