Aging in the Gay Community: Newsweek investigates our invisible and overlooked seniors [video]
”I’m used to having friends I can call up and say, ‘Let’s go to [a movie],'” he says. “But now there’s nobody to call.”
Bob McCoy, 78, of Brooklyn, NY, sharing his situation as a gay senior citizen today. (Newsweek)
”If you can imagine a situation where you’re 80 years old, with no kids, a partner passed, no cousins or relatives and not one service that will provide you help with an emoticon of respect, that’s what most LGBT seniors in this country face right now.”
Michael Adams, Executive Director of New York’s SAGE (Services and Advocacy for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Elders), the nation’s oldest senior network. (Newsweek)
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