Archive for the ‘Aging’ Category

Nov
2008
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The Forgotten People

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Have you been to a nursing home? If you haven’t you should. It is a reality check that everyone needs. It doesn’t matter your age or health. You need to go. You need to smell the smells, you need to see how you may end up, you need to meet and maybe even talk to The [...]

Oct
2008
26

A Message From A Pennsylvanian RE: Prop 8

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Vote NO on Prop 8! Californians, do everything you can to preserve your rights!
I live in Pennsylvania. Here in PA, gays and lesbians do not have the right to marry. We don’t have the right to be in domestic partnerships, either. Nor do we have civil unions. In fact, here in Pennsylvania gays and lesbians [...]

Aug
2008
30

Till Death Do Us Part: Long Term Care For Lesbian Partners

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If you were looking for a sexy lesbian topic, you came to the wrong article. But if you are middle-aged and in a lesbian life partnership and want to stay that way till death do you part, read on.
Long term care. What exactly does that mean? In the medical world, long term care (LTC) is [...]

Jun
2008
09

Dating for the More Mature Crowd

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It’s been brought to my attention that there are still a number of us, teh lesbians, who are currently single—that includes single, single again, and single for tonight. I’m not going to name names, you know who you are (not me, of course). It’s brutal out there. Brutal. Well, unless you are in the [...]

Oct
2007
09

Aging and Gay, and Facing Prejudice in Twilight

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I found this to be a very interesting article via The New York Times. Please feel free to comment your thoughts, post, or email them to me to post on TLL.
Even now, at 81 and with her memory beginning to fade, Gloria Donadello recalls her painful brush with bigotry at an assisted-living center in Santa [...]

Aug
2007
16

The Lack there of My Big Fat Lesbian Wedding

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                        I’ll be turning 30 in January. It’s a rather interesting milestone for me. I sit here at 29 and think of all that I had hoped to accomplish by the magical age of 30. There is nay a success story I fear. I thought I would be in a [...]

May
2007
03

Her Hands

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I watched her as a stranger would, just the other day. She sat watching a movie across from me. As I marveled at her beauty I was pleased to feel that same excitement that drew me to her so many years ago. Her hand gracefully rose from the position it had been resting in and [...]

Jul
2006
29

Growing Old and Gay—Revisited

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Back in May, I wrote an entry about my friends Jane, Sophie, Mary and Emma. I spoke of Emma and how she tended to the love of her life, Mary as she battled Cancer. After Mary passed, Mary’s daughters would not even allow Emma to have her things from the house. It was a dirty [...]

May
2006
09

The Gay Nursing Home

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My version of family has always consisted of love. To me, your family should be there to help you bend before you break. They are your support, your confidants, and often times end up being your best friends. It doesn’t always happen that way, but even when our blood relatives fail us we still search [...]

May
2006
05

The Tangled Web–Growing Old…and Gay

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Meet Jane. I have known her since I was 12 years old when I met her daughter in junior high school, the 7th grade. We were best friends, always from then on into adulthood, and Jane was the mother I wished I’d had. The whole family, 5 kids altogether, embraced me and included me on [...]

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