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Elderville Offers Wide Variety of Online Resources for Elders
There’s a new elder in town! Founded by Elmer George, Elderville does a terrific job of providing information and resources for elders, seniors, and all of us in the aging population.
Elderville.org is a resource guide for everything related to seniors. We connect you to reliable sources on the internet so you don’t have to spend time searching. We have safety tips for your daily activities, and resources that range from healthcare to volunteering.
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SAGE Issues Pledge to Stand with LGBT Elders in Face of Discrimination
The Trump administration is giving businesses and medical providers a license to discriminate: to deny services to LGBT individuals based on religious or moral beliefs. Freedom of religion is important to all of us; that’s why it’s protected by our Constitution. But that freedom doesn’t give anyone the right to harm others or to discriminate. In response, SAGE is enlisting the power of the LGBT community, their allies, and the people who care for them to take a stand.
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LGBTSr Facebook Group Enjoys Rapid Growth
An update on the newly formed LGBTSr Group on Facebook: we’ve got over 160 members in the first week. Best of all, members are communicating, sharing their lives, and interacting in ways that the group was intended to encourage. Thanks to everyone who’s joined, and we hope to see more. This group is meant to be a manageable size, so don’t worry about being lost in a thousand Facebook profile photos. It’s just us and a couple hundred of our closest LGBTSr acquaintances. – Mark
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‘Travel Time’ Feature Added to LGBTSr
Have a tip? Share a trip? Email me at Editor @lgbtsr.org, I’d love to spread the word.- Mark/Editor
It’s spring. It’s travel time, let’s get out that sunblock, the rain poncho, our Google map apps, and a book bag stuffed with all the reading that brings us joy.
I’ve added a Travel Time feature to the site, as if the menu could get any tastier! It will also be included with The Weekly Readlines, listing three or four good travel articles each week. I might have to get a second image for the colder months, but let’s get started now with Bears En La Playa Bed & Breakfast, Chelem, Yucatan, Mexico.
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LGBTSr Adds a Group Page to Facebook
LGBTSr has long had a Facebook page, currently with over 4,100 followers. It was finally time to establish a separate, supporting group page where people can post, share, discuss, and explore issues important to us. And, most importantly, to simply know we’re not alone. It’s a closed group to ensure privacy. Here’s a short announcement about it I shared this morning. You can find us and join us at LGBTSR Group.
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May is Older Americans Month – Celebrate and Embrace!
LGBTSr is a place “where age is embraced and life is celebrated.” That’s been our catchphrase from the beginning. So what better announcement can we make than that May is Older Americans Month. Celebrate! Embrace! Engage!From the Administration on Community Living:
Every May, the Administration on Aging, part of the Administration for Community Living, leads our nation’s observance of Older American’s Month. The 2018 theme, Engage at Every Age, emphasizes that you are never too old (or young) to take part in activities that can enrich your physical, mental, and emotional well-being. It also celebrates the many ways in which older adults make a difference in our communities.
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6 Questions for Professor Drewey Wayne Gunn
Professor Gunn We learned last week of the passing of Professor Drewey Wayne Gunn. Many of us knew Professor Gunn for his generosity and his encyclopedic knowledge of gay literature, especially forgotten gay literature by authors who paved the way for later generations. I had the pleasure of interviewing him and being amazed at his extensive answers and his deep knowledge of a subject he was devoted to. Here is a reprint of that interview. – Mark/Editor
I was recently introduced by a mutual friend to Drewey Wayne Gunn, Professor Emeritus , Texas A&M University–Kingsville. Professor Gunn has long been interested in recovering forgotten works of gay literature and has produced a treasure trove of guidebooks in his effort to acknowledge the many authors who, while largely ignored or forgotten, paved the way for the richness and variety we now enjoy in gay literature.
His books include the upcoming Gay American Novels, 1870 – 1970 (McFarland, 2016), as well as Gay Novels of Britain, Ireland, and the Commonwealth, 1881 – 1981 (McFarland, 2014), 1960s Gay Pulp Fiction, edited with Jaime Harker (Massachusetts, 2013), The Gay Male Sleuth in Print and Film (Scarecrow, 2013), and The Golden Age of Gay Literature, editor (MLR, 2009).
I had the pleasure of asking Professor Gunn ‘6 Questions’ about his books, his passion for forgotten works, and how he thinks we can best keep our literary heritage alive. – Mark McNease/Editor
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Quotes and Quotable: New York Times Editorial Board
“The president is not a king but a citizen, deserving of the presumption of innocence and other protections, yet also vulnerable to lawful scrutiny. We hope Mr. Trump recognizes this. If he doesn’t, how Republican lawmakers respond will shape the future not only of this presidency and of one of the country’s great political parties, but of the American experiment itself.” -
Lee Lynch’s Amazon Trail: The Terlet
Photo by Sue Hardesty The Amazon Trail
By Lee LynchWhen I objected, starting around the age of four or five, to commercials on the radio, I had no idea what the future of marketing would hold for us all. Why, I asked, was “The Lone Ranger” interrupted to sell Silvercup Bread? Was it because of his silver bullets? Well, yes, it was considered a terrific marketing tie-in. I hated ads then and I hate them now when the once open internet has become a mammoth shopping mall for which we pay with our privacy.
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Call For Submissions: Gay Men’s Health Summit Seeks Presentations, Panels, Workshops (November 8-10, Vancouver)
SUMMIT 2018
November 8-10
SFU: Vancouver Campus
515 West Hastings
Vancouver, BCHow’s your Head? Sexual Identity, Mental Health and Substance Use
Call for Submissions: Oral Presentations, Panels, Workshops, Videos, Roundtables, Readings
Loneliness, anxiety and depression are no strangers to those of us who have been denied equal status in society. Growing up in a heteronormative and ciscentric world, many gay, bi, trans, Two-Spirit, queer (GBT2Q), and other men who have sex with men have learned how everyday inequalities can impact our health. From microaggressions to institutionalized discrimination, these societal norms can have a lasting impact on our mental health. Combined with stigma towards, and within, our communities (including racism, HIV-stigma and transphobia), this can sometimes spiral into greater physical and sexual health concerns.
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Bob Dylan Celebrates Gay Love with Cover of ‘[He’s] Funny That Way’
Screenshot of the New York Times “If you look at the history of pop music, love songs have predominantly come from one heterosexual perspective. If we view music as something that brings people together, shouldn’t these popular songs be open to everyone?” – Tom Murphy, a co-producer of “Universal Love.”
Shortly after the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage in 2015, Justice Antonin Scalia attended a party where he signaled his displeasure by singing Bob Dylan’s “The Times They Are a-Changin’.”
“He sang with great verve,” Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg told The Washington Post at the time.
Now Mr. Dylan himself is crooning about same-sex love. As part of a new EP called “Universal Love,” he rerecorded the 1929 song “She’s Funny That Way,” from the Great American Songbook catalog, but switched the pronoun to “He’s Funny That Way.”
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Tired Old Queen at the Movies: Gentlemen’s Agreement
Gregory Peck heads an all star cast in Darryl F Zanuck’s Oscar winning Best Picture of 1947; Elia Kazan’s “Gentlemen’s Agreement”. Based on the bestselling novel by Laura Z Hobson, it deals with the problem of antisemitism just after the World War II. Also in the cast are Dorothy McGuire, John Garfield, Anne Revere, June Havoc and Celeste Holm in the role of the sympathetic reporter that won her an Oscar as Best Supporting Actress. Brilliantly written by Moss Hart, it’s subtly acted, directed and as relevant today as the day it premiered.