From the Long View: LGBT Elders and Experts Speak

A five-part interview series featuring members of the first National LGBT Aging Roundtable.

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The aging baby boomer generation is the first generation with large numbers of openly lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender members. How will this affect institutions for the elderly? How will our health care system handle the first generation of HIV/AIDS survivors? How will the Stonewall generation engage with the politics of aging?

	June 5 — Loree Cook-Daniels of the Transgender Aging Network, the American Society of Adult Abuse Professionals and Survivors and the FORGE Forward 2007 Conference and Intensives speaks about universal design, why aging work matters to transgender people and the unique insights LGBT elders can offer about improving aging for everyone.
	June 12 — Robert Spellman of Griot Circle and Gay Men of African Descent speaks about housing, HIV/AIDS, working on behalf of “controversial” groups and the trouble with forcing people into roles that they don’t want to play.
	June 19 — Barbara Satin of the United Church of Christ and the Institute for Welcoming Resources talks about the magnificence of life after 60, why trans people choose their battles carefully, developing a culture of respect for age and the relevance of the welcoming church movement.
	June 26 — Bill Serpe of SAGE/Milwaukee discusses how a lack of resources can make you give up your life, the challenges and importance of asking for help, the need to improve access to health care and the urgency of protecting “our treasures.”
	July 3 — John Otto of the National Center for Transgender Equality, recently a library sciences student in Seattle, talks about self-advocacy, how being a transitioned man can complicate having aging parents and the ways in which insurance and government policies affect transgender men’s experience of aging.