Gay people will make up between 7 to 10% of the senior population in the next 25 years and are twice as likely to live alone as their straight counterparts. They are also less likely to have insurance, less likely to have someone to care for them if they are ill, and 90% understandably don’t have children. Looking beyond marriage, the gay rights movement needs to take care of our seniors. We’re all gonna need the help someday.
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Jack Jett
Attention LOGO……
Read above and consider programming for gay men over 40….50?
http://www.rationalradio.org
WickedGayBlog.com
VERY WELL SAID! Although only in my 30’s, my partner and I talk about this subject at length and do have gay friends older than us that we make sure that we reach out to regularly.
John
Wow, the future seems grim. At least I didn’t have to read this blog entry with my morning coffee.
askDavid
no, not grim, we just need to be realistic about the future. The only alternative to getting older is dying now.
that’s grim.
andy_d
AARP provides family memberships for same sex couples. I speak from experience. My partner and I are AARP members and ALL their benefits are avilable to us.
Mauricio
Thank you Andy, I didn’t know that…
Distingué Traces
7 to 10 percent? Where are they getting these numbers?
Charles Merrill
AARP is great and looks after everyone. I am a member. Why a gay AARP? What is this, a Millennial generation group wanting to make another organization and raise funds for poor little us gay geezers because they found a grey hair in the mirror ? What a laugh.
CHURCHILL-Y
Why is this news ? We’ve always known this.
“We’re all gonna need the help someday.”
So are lot in life will never change:
“live alone,
less likely to have insurance,
less likely to have someone to care for them if they are ill,
don’t have children.”
Jeez thanks for the ray of sunshine! I know that’s what some of the people within the GLBT community are always rooting for: perpetual victimization and for a downtrodden status.
We should take care of our senior citizens but what I object too is doing it because all of us are going to end up in a similar situation. No we shouldn’t! It would be quiet honestly disrespect full to them to see how we have not advanced and progress in our fight for equality and have cozy up to marginalization.
“Looking beyond marriage”
Bullshit! Marriage equality, reproductive rights and reproductive technology is at the core of what our senior citizens fought for all throughout their lives and their inability(not by any fault or any lack of passion and action on their part)to achieve this is the cause for the situation they are finding themselves in.