From KPBS

The North Park Senior Apartments were created in partnership with the San Diego LGBT Community Center. Inside, they have an office to help connect residents with nearby resources.

“You’re always represented by the center as well as our apartment complex,” said Paul Stewart who lives in one of the new units. “To make sure that both sides of whatever is happening or needs to be addressed is heard.”

Developers said this is the first affordable senior housing community designed to support LGBT seniors.

From Radio IQ/WVTF

There are an estimated 700,000 people in this country who consider themselves transgender.  Add in those who are openly gay, lesbian or bisexual and the number rises to nine million.  They find growing acceptance in society, but many people – including doctors and nurses — remain uncomfortable when dealing with the LGBT community.  That’s why UVA is hosting a special conference on May 10th.

Ken White is an associate dean of nursing at the University of Virginia.  He’s also a gay man, yet no doctor has ever asked about his sexual history, and he knows many health care professionals who are even more uncomfortable with transgender men and women.

“They don‘t know what to say,” he explains. ” They don’t want to make a mistake, so they don’t say anything, and that makes patients feel isolated.”

See full details and program HERE.

April 25, 2018, 7 p.m.: The Publishing Triangle will sponsor a reading by a select group of finalists for this year’s awards at the Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, the bookstore inside the LGBT Community Services Center at 208 West 13th Street, Manhattan. The participating finalists for this free event will  be announced closer to the event. Books by the readers will be sold at the event.

April 26, 2018, 7 p.m.: Join us for the Publishing Triangle’s annual awards ceremony at the New School’s Tishman Auditorium, 63 Fifth Avenue, in Greenwich Village, New York. Reception to follow. This is a free event.

Among the readers on April 25 will be Paula Martinac, a finalist for the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction for her novel, The Ada Decades (Bywater Books). You can read my ‘6 Questions‘ interview with Paula HERE.

See a complete lists of finalists and more details at The Publishing Triangle website.

From the LGBT Elder Initiative

New in the spring of 2018, the LGBT Elder Initiative is partnering with Jefferson Health for a new series of programs on LGBT elder health. This program series, “The Doctor Is In,” will explore pertinent health issues that impact LGBT older adult communities, equipping participants with knowledge and resources to better manage their health and reduce the risk of certain health issues.

Workshops will be facilitated by geriatricians from the Jefferson Department of Family and Community Medicine. Workshop topics have been identified based on the results of a survey created and distributed by the LGBT Elder Initiative in early 2018. Programs will be held either at Thomas Jefferson University or the William Way Community Center.

Continue reading at LGBTEI

Via Press Release

Maurice W. Dorsey has done it again. His previous book, Businessman First, was a fascinating biography of African American businessman Henry G. Parks, Jr., and a finalist for a QBR Wheatley Book Award. His new novel, From Whence We Come, is every bit as powerful. You can read a ‘6 Questions’ with the author here at LGBTSr, and he’ll be among our monthly featured authors later this summer.

From the Pratt Library event description:

In his new novel, From Whence We Come, Maurice Dorsey tells the story of Seymour Rose, an African American man who is gay. He was born to a father who is Catholic and accepts his son unconditionally. His mother, who is born Methodist, is homophobic and tells her son throughout his life that she never wanted to have him. Seymour reflects on three generations of his family history and often tells family stories to make sense of his years of emotional insecurity and feelings of being unloved and unwanted.

Date: Thursday, May 17
Time: 6:00 p.m.
Location: Enoch Pratt Free Library, Waverly Branch
400 E. 33rd Street, Baltimore, MD 21218

Southern Comfort,’ about the last days of a transgender man and the annual gathering in Georgia. From the New York Times:

A new musical based on “Southern Comfort,” Kate Davis’s award-winning documentary about transgender friends in rural Georgia will be presented by CAP21 Theater Company in Manhattan this fall. The musical, also called “Southern Comfort,” features a folk-bluegrass score by Dan Collins (book and lyrics) and Julianne Wick Davis (music). The show, to be presented at CAP21’s Black Box Theater on West 18th Street, will star Annette O’Toole (“The Kennedys of Massachusetts,” “Smallville”) and Jeff McCarthy (“Urinetown,” “Beauty and the Beast”). Tom Caruso directs. Previews are to begin Oct. 5.]]>

In case you missed it, see Steve Barnes’s review here of Marianne Faitfhfull’s latest. She’ll be performing at SoHo’s City Winery in December, where I recently saw Rickie Lee Jones, one of my musical idols. If you’re a Faithfull fan you’ll want to catch this.]]>