Stay in the Loop
LGBT News for July 2018
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Links and videos of interest to the mature LGBT adult are just a click away.
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LGBTQ in the WOO Digital Archive
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2019 will witness the fiftieth anniversary of the New York’s Stonewall Uprising and the advent of the modern gay liberation movement. To commemorate this anniversary, Worcester Historical Museum (WHM) is undertaking a major effort to preserve, digitize, and share Worcester County's LGBTQ past. This initiative will culminate in a 2019 Exhibition at 30 Elm Street as well as a lasting digital archive. Since no earlier organization has actively sought to preserve in a systematic way Central Massachusetts’s LGBTQ past, there is much to uncover. To bring together the fragmentary and scattered documentation of Worcester County's LGBTQ experience, the WHM along with Digital Worcester are sponsoring community outreach for the digital sharing, collection, preservation of this important history - a history that matters to all of us.
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Graphic Medicine and LGBTQ Health
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Learning about a new health topic can be hard. It can feel overwhelming and impersonal. But Graphic Medicine can help. Graphic Medicine is comic books and graphic novels that tell personal stories of health and wellness. The visual format makes the information easier to understand and digest. By reading the author or illustrator’s personal story, we can learn about issues we may not have experienced personally. These stories can also help us feel less alone in our own lives. (Sarah Levin-Lederer, NER Update, 6/18/18)
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Rainbow Supper & Lunch Clubs
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The Rainbow Lunch Club meets the second and fourth Wednesdays of the month at noon
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This month lunch is served on
July 11th and 25th.
The Rainbow Supper Club meets this month on
Tuesday July 3rd
supper is served at 6:00pm.
Both the Rainbow Lunch and Supper Clubs are held at the
Unitarian Universalist Church of Worcester, 90 Holden Street, Worcester, MA.
Entertainment returns!
See flyer posted below
The suggested meal donation for people 60+ is $2.50. Guests under 60 pay $5.50.
Reservations: If you wish to attend the Rainbow Lunch or Supper Club or cancel your reservation, please call or email WLEN one week before at (508) 756-1545 ext. 404 —
wlen@eswa.org. If no one is available please leave a message including your name and phone number and date you plan to attend. You may also make your reservation through our on-line Meet Up group
here.
Entertainment/program supported in part by a grant from the Worcester Arts Council, a local agency which is supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency
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Join us for a special Rainbow
Lunch Club on October 10th
(date change)
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Join at us for a very special Rainbow Lunch Club on Wednesday October 10th! On this day we welcome special guest,
Secretary of Massachusetts' Executive Office of Elder Affairs, Alice Bonner, PhD.
To make reservations please call or email WLEN by October 5th.
508-756-1545 ext. 404
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LGBTQ Elders of Color Face Challenges
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The Rainbow Times: What are some key issues facing LGBTQ seniors?
Shirley Royster: I think some of the issues are getting quality care. We … will be needing assisted living programs [and] assisted care to stay in our homes. ... Right now [in many assisted living facilities] if you are out, a lot of times you are [sat] in a corner, no one bothers you, no one wants to assist you because you are this gay person. And [being] gay is looked down on, even [among] seniors as it is … young people. (Mike Givens and Nicole Collins, The Rainbow Times, 5/30/18)
See Me: Including LGBTQ elders
Working with a diverse elder population and issues impacting diverse elders, especially people of color communities, I think about diversity and engagement to include all people in whatever work I do. That means to intentionally think about who is at the table, as well as who is not at the table in terms of not only race and ethnicity, but perceived class, socioeconomic status, age, gender representation, urban, rural, and small town. It means that I may have to think outside of my comfort zone, and consider norms beyond my own African American, lesbian, older, woman, born in USA, middle class, college educated sensibilities. (Imani Woody, Ph.D., NCOA Healthy Aging blog, 6/15/18)
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Hearing the patient's voice
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Devoting time to listen to (LGBTQ) patients reveals powerful insights. For an individual who may feel marginalized by society, and seemingly invisible to the world, genuine attention, active listening and understanding from a physician goes a long way to building a trusting relationship that can lead to better outcomes for all. (Dr. Richard S. Isaacs, Modern Healthcare, 6/19/18)
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Gender-Inclusive Licenses
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Last week, in a victory for LGBTQ rights, Maine became the third state (plus Washington, DC) to offer a nonbinary gender option on driver’s licenses. Nonbinary individuals do not identify with the sex they were assigned at birth. The National Center for Transgender Equality defines nonbinary people as those who fall outside the designations of male or female or who blend the two together. This does not mean they are intersex, nor does it necessarily mean they identify as transgender, though these can all overlap, and the NCTE includes nonbinary identities in the transgender spectrum.
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The queer changes language undergoes
In all cultures, slang comes in and out of vogue, certain words shed and take on new connotations and entirely new terms spring up — and the shared lexicon that links LGBTQ people together is no different. But experts seem confident that whatever form the next generation’s queer language might take, they’ll likely shift the lexicon in ways we can’t yet predict. (Anna Swartz, Mic, 6/18/18)
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Rainbow Readers
A monthly book club dedicated to reading all things Queer and LGBTQA
at Annie's Book Stop
65 James Street, Worcester MA
508-796-5613
LGBTQI Meetup for Central Mass
The purpose of this Meetup group is to help create a vibrant LGBTQI+ community throughout Central Massachusetts. Check this page out for LBGTQI+ friendly events in our area!
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WLEN– Worcester LGBT Elder Network, is a joint effort of Elder Services of Worcester Area Inc.,
Central Massachusetts Agency on Aging and the Worcester Senior Center.
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