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Aging
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 Men
Like Us : The GMHC Complete Guide to Gay Men's Sexual, Physical,
and Emotional Well-Being by Daniel
Wolfe
Can't find your frenulum? Can't
interpret your insurance? Can't name the major herbal remedy for
prostate problems? Daniel Wolfe's amazing, enlightening, and
physically weighty compendium on gay men's health can usher anyone
through the major crises of life--grief, illness, bad hair--and
offer sane advice on gay-specific issues, from coming out to
harassment to spirituality within mainstream and alternative
religions. Readers will expect a great deal of attention to
HIV--and won't be disappointed--but may be surprised by the
comprehensiveness of the section on recreational drugs, for
example, or the attention devoted to the pharmacological
treatments of depression. Passages on anal eroticism will help the
reader chart new territory. Sections on exercise and nutrition are
necessarily less complete. The text is supplemented with charts
and sidebars (one of the best lists necessary legal documents for
single or coupled men), as well as quotes from hundreds of gay men
who were interviewed in person by Gay Men's Health Crisis or who
responded to surveys ("My mind said I was walking home, but
my body was walking to the sex club"). An essential resource
for health care providers, therapists, and educators, Men Like
Us also makes for lively casual reading, as in this word on
allergies to latex condoms: "Although it sounds like a bad
gay joke, don't eat bananas or nuts. They're among the foods,
along with papaya and avocado, that can make a latex allergy
worse." --Regina Marler
 Gay
Old Girls by Zsa Zsa Gershick
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collection of nine life stories can be seen as part of the larger
project instituted by Joan Nestle and others to gather an oral
history of lesbian life in America in the 20th century. Although
some of the memories here stretch back to the 1920s, most date
from the repressive postwar years and describe the difficulties of
finding community--let alone lovers--when there were no safe,
established meeting places for gay people. Many of the women
interviewed ended up marrying men as a cover or to make their
lives easier, while some married before they realized they were
lesbian, the most remarkable of whom is Jane Stevenson, a
California housewife and mother of two, whose suburban household
in the 1960s came to include her female lover as well as her
transvestite husband. Their need for secrecy and their joy in
finding each other kept them happy together for many years, yet
her story is countered by several in which the women never found
lasting love, or grew so discouraged that they stopped trying.
Although not all of these interviews are intrinsically
interesting, they offer an essential glimpse of a dark past and
spur on the struggle for civil rights. --Regina Marler
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A non-profit corporation dedicated to encourage
gay and lesbian individuals and businesses to give financially and
of their time and talent to enhance the aging experience of all
retiring gays and lesbians in exchange for tax and other benefits.
Gay & Lesbian Association of Retired Persons
10940 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 1600
Los Angeles, CA 90024
Phone: 310 966 1500
Email: glarp@earthlink.net
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Begun in 1985 to end isolation and loneliness
among midlife and old Lesbians, now GOLDEN THREADS is a
worldwide network. Although created for the ageful Lesbian, no
woman is excluded because of her age.
Also, GOLDEN THREADS is a contact
publication for Lesbian women over fifty, and their younger
Lesbian friends. Issue dates are March, June, September, December.
Subscription is free to members. A Golden Threader receives the
publication for the term of her membership. Golden Threaders
become friends with one another, no matter where we are: around
the world or across town. We come together in correspondence, by
exchanging talk tapes and by telephone. Eventually, most Golden
Threaders meet.
Golden Threads
P O Box 65
Richford, VT 05476-0065
Email: goldentred@aol.com
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The goal of ASA's Lesbian and Gay Aging Issues
Network (LGAIN) is to raise awareness about the special challenges
lesbians and gay men face as they age and the unique barriers this
often invisible segment of the aging population encounters in
gaining access to housing, healthcare, long-term care and social
services.
The Network fosters and creates opportunities
for multidisciplinary dialogue among policymakers, administrators
of aging services, service providers, researchers and older gay
men and lesbians.
The Network's goals are the following:
 | To aid in dispelling stereotypes and myths
about older lesbians and gay men.
| To encourage research that explores the
experiences of older lesbians and gay men, and documents their
contributions and needs.
| To provide links between providers and
agencies in healthcare, long-term care and human services to
create greater awareness of the existence, needs and
lifestyles of older lesbians and gay men and to promote access
to needed services.
| To work with lesbian and gay community
organizations to create a greater awareness of the special
gifts and talents of older lesbians and gay men and to develop
programs that respond to their needs. |
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LGAIN welcomes the involvement of all concerned
individuals regardless of sexual orientation.
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PRIDE SENIOR NETWORK
MISSION STATEMENT
To encourage and promote services which foster
maximum health, well being, and quality of life for the aging
lesbian, gay, bisexual & transgender community through
advocacy and education.
GOALS
- To clarify and define the needs of lesbians
and gay men relating to the senior years.
- To develop and sustain productive linkages
between service providers and the diverse community of older
lesbians and gay men.
- To assist in the development of needed
services for lesbian and gay seniors where adequate ones do
not exist.
- To encourage lesbians and gay men to be
informed and responsible consumers, taking full advantage of
those services which enable quality health and well being.
- To encourage ongoing standards of
excellence in services and products provided.
- To foster through education and advocacy, a
climate which affords dignity, equality and encouragement to
lesbian and gay seniors so that this often “hidden
minority” can contribute their full potential to our diverse
society.
Pride Senior Network does not discriminate on
the basis of age, sex, race, creed, marital status, or sexual
orientation.
Pride Senior Network
1756 Broadway, Suite 11 H
New York, NY 10019
Phone: 212 757 3203
Email: pridesr@erols.com
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The purpose of this organization is to provide
mature gay and bisexual men, and their admirers, with
opportunities to come together in a supportive atmosphere to enjoy
social, educational, and recreational activities.
Prime Timers are older gay or bisexual men (and
younger adult men who admire mature men). Our members are men who
choose to have their social lives enriched by the diverse
activities in which our members engage. No single definition can
describe Prime Timers, as they come from all walks of life. Prime
Timers involve themselves in their community with volunteerism,
politics, gay issues, arts, entertainment, and every other facet
of healthy living. Prime Timers are fathers and care givers. They
are businessmen and entrepreneurs. They are workers and they are
retired. Some are always on the go, and some enjoy the quiet
company of others at home. But one thing is true of all Prime
Timers: they enjoy the opportunities and friendships that develop
with other Prime Timers throughout the world.
Prime Timers was founded in 1987 by a retired
professor, Woody Baldwin. He felt a wide gap existed in today's
society which caters almost exclusively to youth. This worship of
eternal youth is never more flagrant than in the gay culture.
Woody began the Boston Chapter by placing ads in local newspapers
and soliciting his many friends. He expected only a small handful
of men to attend the first meeting and was surprised when over 40
showed up. This indicated to Woody a need for social and cultural
organizations to aid and support the aging gay and bisexual man.
Now this organization has grown to over forty chapters worldwide,
located throughout North America, Europe and Australia.
Prime Timers
90971 Hwy 101 #2
Warrenton, OR 97146
Email: ptw@lasvegasnv.net
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SAGE, or Senior Action in a Gay
Environment, was founded in 1977 and is the nation's oldest and
largest social service and advocacy organization dedicated to LGBT
(lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) senior citizens.
SAGE serves LGBT seniors in all
five boroughs of the city. SAGE also maintains a drop-in center in
the "West Village."
Additionally, SAGE is the founder
of a nationwide network of local organizations for LGBT seniors
called SAGENET.
SAGE: Senior Action In A Gay Environment
305 Seventh Avenue, 16th floor
New York, NY 10001
Phone: 212 741 2247
Email: welcome@sageusa.org
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