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“And giving it away has been consuming
more and more of my time. So this is to let you
know that I recently sold my holdings in
Quark.”
His Denver-based Gill Foundation supports
gay and lesbian charities nationwide and numer­
ous other nonprofits in Colorado with policies
against sexual orientation discrimination. Presi­
dent Katherine Pease announced Oct. 25 that
although the final budget has not yet been
approved, national grants for the coming year
are expected to increase from $4-4 million to $6
million, with further increases in later years.
NATIONAL
illions of gay, lesbian, bisexual and trans-
gendered seniors are more
likely to face poverty and
discrimination by care­
givers, nursing homes
and senior services centers,
according to a new
report. Moreover,
many older sexual
minorities say they do not
know who will take care
of them if they need
assistance.
Outing Age: Public
Policy Issues Facing Gay,
Lesbian, Bisexual and
Transgender Elders was
released Nov. 11 by the
National Lesbian and
Gay Task Force Poli­
cy Institute. It is the
first comprehensive report
to address public policy
issues facing older sexual
minorities.
The task force estimates the
United States has between 1 million and 3
million gay, lesbian and bi seniors and will have
4 million by 2030. No national census statistics
are available on transgendered people.
“It is clear that aging service providers are
not ready for this new wave of GLBT elders,”
said Ken South, director of the task forces
Aging Initiative, which produced the report in
collaboration with activists and organizations
around the country. “Policymakers are either
ignorant of it or running away from it, and the
GLBT community at large has not faced it.”
Among the report’s findings:
• Several federal programs that aim to serve
older U.S. citizens “blatantly exclude or other­
wise discriminate against GLBT elders.” For
example, Social Security pays survivor benefits
to widows and widowers but not to surviving
spouses of same-sex life partners. Medicaid regu­
lations protect the homes and assets of married
spouses but offer no such protection to same-sex
partners.
• Tax laws and other regulations of 401 (k)
plans and pensions discriminate against same-
sex partners and could cost the surviving partner
in a same-sex relationship more than $1 million
during the course of a lifetime.
• One study cited in the report found that
sexual minorities older than 65 are twice as like­
ly to live alone. The same study found that 90
percent of gay senior citizens have no children
vs. 20 percent of all seniors.
• The report cites rampant bias in health
care and social services for older sexual minori­
ties. In one survey, for example, 52 percent of
nursing home staff reported intolerance and bias
against homosexual residents.
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fficials of the National Coalition for LGBT
Health have announced the inclusion of
29 health indicators in a U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services publication.
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Healthy People 2010 is the major public
health plan focused on the elimination of health
disparities across racial, ethnic, regional, gender
and sexual orientation lines in the nation. Dis­
parities occur in areas such as: ability to access
health care among communities of color and
noncolor; levels of immunization between rural
and urban communities; and variances in tobac­
co use among adults and adolescents.
The unique aspect that has emerged in the
development of HP2010 is a recognition that
sexual orientation also affects access to and uti­
lization of health services and delivery of care.
For the first time in U.S. history, the new indi­
cators will lead to improved data collection and
analysis around lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans­
gender health issues.
“In years to come, we will look back to a time
when medical professionals began to view les­
bian, gay, bisexual and transgendered people as
distinct communities with a wide range of
unique health issues and concerns,” said Claude
Earl Fox, administrator for the feder­
al government’s Health Resources
and Services Administration.
“And when we look back, we will
see that this document helped
enlighten academics, health pro­
fessionals and health care plan­
ners about the need for culturally
competent health care for LGBT
communities.”
l he New England Journal
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of Medicine reports
Nov. 9 a form of the herpes
virus that causes an AIDS-
related skin cancer appears to
spread through kissing, accord­
ing to The Associated Press. Herpes
virus 8 causes a skin cancer called Kaposi’s sar­
coma, which occurs almost exclusively in people
with AIDS.
The University of Washington research cen­
tered on 39 gay men who were infected with the
virus but did not have Kaposi’s sarcoma. Tests
found the virus in 30 percent of their saliva sam­
ples and mouth swabs but only 1 percent of anal
and genital samples.
Virus levels also were much higher in saliva
than in semen, according to Dr. John Pauk.
“The important thing is it suggests that oral-oral
contact plays some role in transmission,
although more study is needed to confirm that.”
Dr. Ronald O. Valdiserri of the U.S. Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention said the
research “definitely has public health implica­
tions for people infected with HIV.” However,
because of insufficient data, he did not recom­
mend they avoid deep kissing.
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