|
 Frank Carter was once a globe-trotting professional dancer; his world is smaller now as he battles multiple health problems, walks with a cane and rarely leaves his compact Manhattan apartment.
As an 86-year-old gay man, with no family nearby and many acquaintances long since dead, he'd seem a likely prospect for isolation.
Instead, he has kindled a deep, five-year friendship with Gigi Stoll, a fashion model-turned-photographer half his age.
Stoll helps Carter with medical arrangements, writes to him when she travels overseas, and sat with him for six hours during his most recent hospitalization.
"The other guys in the hospital, no-one was coming in to see them," Carter said to The Canadian Press. "To get that gift, you have to be lucky."
It's not just luck.
Stoll came into his life though a program that matches infirm gays and lesbians with volunteers who commit to making weekly visits.
Long overlooked by society at large, and even by younger gays, elderly gays and lesbians are emerging as distinct community, getting more help and attention as they confront challenges that differ in many ways from their heterosexual counterparts The Canadian Press writes.
Photo : MySoCalledGayLife.com |
People from the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities are taking part in the fifth national Student Pride in Brighton.
Will the ultraliberal, gay-friendly Sundance Film Festival be hurt by the passage of California's antigay Prop 8?
A player named only as 'Victory' claims he has been the lover of 12 well-known top flight stars.
A gay couple who had a steamy kiss in a college bar were confronted by a security man who demanded they stop being intimate.
During the entire month of April, rocker Ariel Aparicio’s song “Pretty In Pink” will serve as encouragement for women who have been diagnosed with breast cancer. From April 1st-30th, Ariel will donate his proceeds of $.54 cents from each iTunes sale of his take on the Psychedelic Furs’ 1980s classic to the Greater New York City Affiliate of Susan G. Komen For The Cure ®
A lifetime blanket ban on gay men giving blood should be reviewed, Scottish Liberal Democrats have said.