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SAGE, MAP RELEASE “IMPROVING THE LIVES OF LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER OLDER ADULTS”AT NATIONAL “AGING IN AMERICA” CONFERENCE MARCH 17TH

SAGE | March 17, 2010 | Chicago, IL

TO DOWNLOAD THE REPORT GO TO
WWW.SAGEUSA.ORG or WWW.LGBTMAP.ORG

Chicago, IL, March 17, 2010….. A groundbreaking report released today represents the first major collaboration between lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) advocacy organizations and mainstream aging organizations to comprehensively examine the issues facing LGBT older adults.

“Improving the Lives of LGBT Older Adults” was co-authored by Services & Advocacy for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Elders (SAGE) and the Movement Advancement Project (MAP) in partnership with the American Society on Aging, the National Senior Citizens Law Center, and the Center for American Progress, with a foreword from the AARP. The report was formally released at the American Society on Aging’s national conference, being held this year in Chicago, IL.

Mainstream aging groups endorse report on needs of gay seniors

Chicago Tribune | SAGE | Rex W. Huppke

Study calls on lawmakers to change Social Security and Medicaid to help growing population

(March 17, 2010)—A national report being released Wednesday in Chicago details the myriad social and financial stumbling blocks that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender senior citizens face and calls on lawmakers to change Social Security and Medicaid to help this growing population.

Giving heft to the report — prepared by Services & Advocacy for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Elders, or SAGE — is the endorsement it has received from major mainstream aging groups including AARP and the American Society on Aging.

LESBIAN PENS 2ND MEMOIR OF RECOVERY, "LEAVE THE LIGHT ON" FOLLOWS SUCCESSFUL "BLACKOUT GIRL"

Jennifer Storm | Leave the Light on | March 15, 2010

LEAVE THE LIGHT ON
A Memoir of Recovery and Self-Discovery
by Jennifer Storm

Young addict reveals her harrowing and ultimately victorious journey
‘post-recovery’

Review of “Blackout Girl”: “Readers who have suffered the debilitating after-effects of childhood sexual abuse or faced a descent into additions like the ones that [Jennifer] Storm details, will find much to empathize with here.” – Rachel Pepper, Curve Magazine

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Church Responds to New Law

Kate Boulden | CNN | March 6, 2010

Catholic Charities cuts benefits for new workers’ spouses to avoid D.C.‘s new same-sex marriage law.

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Readers react to photo of two men kissing

Washington Post | Andrew Alexander | March 9, 2010

Powerful photographs can have lasting impact, and a Post photo of two men kissing is an image that many readers can neither forget nor accept.

The photo, which ran on the newspaper’s front page and online last week, captured Jeremy Ames and Taka Ariga kissing outside D.C. Superior Court on the day that the District began accepting license applications for same-sex marriages.