Posted on 07/12/2015 3:28:36 AM PDT by markomalley
The last time the White House hosted its once-per-decade Conference on Aging, at least 1,200 advocates and policymakers attended. Among them was a single delegate representing older lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.
On Monday, President Obama is expected to host a smaller affair, with perhaps 200 delegates. But there will be four people officially representing the interests of older LGBT people, including Michael Adams, executive director of Services and Advocacy for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Elders (SAGE). Two of the LGBT representatives are octogenarians. One of them is transgender.
“There’s a story there from the LGBT angle about the progress we’ve made on LGBT issues,” Adams said Friday. “For the LGBT community, and for people who are focused on LGBT issues, the question is: Where do we go now?”
In the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s landmark decision upholding the right to same-sex marriage, LGBT advocates are hoping to use the conference to raise awareness of the difficulties older gay people and lesbians still face, especially when it comes to housing discrimination in retirement or care facilities. Adams said much remains to be done to combat routine discrimination against gay people in other areas, too. Gay people can now marry anywhere in the country, but in a majority of states, they could still lose their jobs or be denied housing or other services for being gay, he said.
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Where do I get off this ride?
Homosexuality is a mental disorder.
In so many ways, the crazy people are in control of our society. It’s not going well, and it’s only going to get worse.
I said that in a chatroom not long ago.
Brought the wrath of god on my head.
> “There’s a story there from the LGBT angle about the progress we’ve made on LGBT issues,” Adams said Friday. “For the LGBT community, and for people who are focused on LGBT issues, the question is: Where do we go now?”
That depends on if you mean the here and now or after death.
Progressives will never stop. NEVER EVER EVER. There is always something more to destroy.
Their whining never ends they can’t handle the real world.
Indeed. It is a perversion of the natural order of things. Just as any disease is a perversion of the natural healthy order of the body. It is bizarre that our society would choose to tolerate such a disease much less foster it even celebrate it. This is indicative of a sick society.
Billionaire Davud Geffen—the oligarch who brought “pride parades” to your neighborhood.
If homosexuals are “born that way”, how do they explain bisexuals?
Their agenda now is to find an agenda
What pitiful victims
Sarc
“Homosexuality is a mental disorder.”
Just Gods way of saying:
“Don’t reproduce, you have absolutely nothing to
contribute to the human gene pool.”
I keep asking that question of gay rights defenders in Facebook discussion groups. None of them has answered it yet.
There’s nothing as pathetic as an old queer.
It ends when and where the country ends, soon I suspect.
A Canadian study found that homosexual men have a life expectancy 20 years less than other men, in part because of STDs and in part due to higher drug and alcohol abuse rates. Hence, far fewer of them live to be old.
Transgenders have a suicide rate ten times that of everyone else - even after surgery. Liberals say it is due to discrimination, but the reality is that they were untreated for the underlying mental disorder, hence, still likely to commit suicide.
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