Bi Sasquatch<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@AssociatedPress" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>AssociatedPress</span></a></span> - June 7, 2025<br>“We’re a society that really values youth as is. When you throw in LGBTQ on top of that, it’s a double whammy,” says Christina Da Costa of the group SAGE — Services and Advocacy for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Elders. “When you combine so many factors, you have a population that’s a lot less likely to thrive than their younger brethren.”</p><p>"Older LGBTQ+ people are far more likely to have no contact with their family and less likely to have children to help care for them, Da Costa says. Gay men over 60 are the precise generation that saw their peer group decimated by AIDS. The result: chronic loneliness and isolation.</p><p>“As you age, it becomes difficult to find your peer group because you don’t go out to bars anymore,” says Yvonne Smith, a 73-year-old D.C. resident who moved to Washington at age 14. “There are people isolated and alone out there.”</p><p>"These seniors are also often poorer than their younger brethren. Many were kicked out of the house the moment they came out of the closet, and being openly queer or nonbinary could make you unemployable or vulnerable to firing deep into the 1990s."</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/Elder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Elder</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Pride" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pride</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Elderly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Elderly</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/AcceptanceMatters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AcceptanceMatters</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/LGBT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LGBT</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/LGBTQ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQ</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/LGBTQIAPlus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQIAPlus</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Lesbian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lesbian</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Gay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gay</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Bisexual" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bisexual</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Transgender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Transgender</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Queer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Queer</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Intersex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Intersex</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Asexual" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Asexual</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/NonBinary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NonBinary</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://apnews.com/article/pride-aging-lgbtq-gay-lesbian-life-a70633f8b463b8e5f1ae4923f009a83d" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apnews.com/article/pride-aging</span><span class="invisible">-lgbtq-gay-lesbian-life-a70633f8b463b8e5f1ae4923f009a83d</span></a></p>