LGBT

partners. And I don't want to blame bigotry 100% either, it's just that the community has supported and lived by itself for so many years w/o help while being its own form of self isolation, that reaching out for help is by seniors is avoided/reluctant for gay seniors to ask for. An extreme in-the-closet paranoia that still exists among many in the gay community.

Many within the gay community do check in on gay seniors on a regular basis (call, visit, etc.), as well as arrange other needed services if needed, such as help w/ setting up their home computers, getting rides to/from their homes, etc. Picking them to/from appointments, run errands, etc., in some areas this is 'organized' and other areas, it's not.

It is good for a service like SAGE, to exist, and perhaps something to shoot for, but the population in NYC can support such an organization. Can SAGE exist elsewhere? Probably why so many gay seniors move away when they can, for this very reason, to obtain more and better services elsewhere (like a lot of demographics do, move away as soon as they can).