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Is Being an Older LGBTQ+ Person as Terrifying as It Sounds?
Someone asked me the other day what my favorite movie was, and I immediately said Arthur, like I always do. Then they said, “Never heard of it? When did it come out?” I didn’t answer 1981, nearly 40 years ago. At that moment I felt old, out of date, and superficially shallow.
Thus, I was not surprised by a new report from The Fenway Institute that found older LGBTQ+ adults in the state of Massachusetts have been diagnosed with depression at twice the rate of their straight, cisgender peers. It could be Massachusetts or any other state, or any other country because depression among older LGBTQ+ people is real, and no doubt much more widespread than we ever realize. I always tell people that if it could happen to me, the proverbial life of the party, it can happen to anyone. Having dealt with severe depression, and then having sought out many older LGBTQ+ people who also experienced similar circumstances, I found it remarkable that we all suffered from some sort of PTSD from our youths.
Again, not surprised that the report also found that LGBTQ+ individuals were twice as likely to fall and be injured in a fall over the past year, and I wouldn’t be shocked to hear if some of that was related to dangerous behavior about feeling alone and useless. Another woman, a lesbian, told me that she had a life-threatening operation, and has not been the same since and feels there’s nothing to live for, except her cat, who is 10. Otherwise, she is alone, without her partner who died, and without a family to take care of her. The family has made her feel shame for who she is, and she worries about being alone for the remainder of her life. Some days, she doesn’t feel like getting out of bed, and subsists on her Social Security checks, desperately afraid that she’ll end up in a nursing home left to die. We didn’t discuss it, but I’m sure she feels equal trepidation about not being able to pay the costs of round-the-clock care.
Is Being an Older LGBTQ+ Person as Terrifying as It Sounds?
...health care employees ‘smacking’ around 29-year-old with autism
...woman allegedly hits elderly sister in the head with cellphone, pushes wheelchair...
Senior living facility worker shoved 76-year-old woman so hard she died
Outrage as seniors are 'kicked out' of their homes in retirement mecca to make way for luxury housing boom
I’m a 64-year-old single gay man and I hate my life
California city’s taxpayer-funded housing for ‘LGBTQ seniors’ accused of breaking civil rights laws
Moment Amazon delivery driver attacks elderly man he accused of stealing his parking spot
Sudan's women face 'world's worst' sexual violence amid brutal conflict
The Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have been locked in a brutal conflict since April 2023 that has killed tens of thousands of people, displaced around 11 million and been marked by widespread sexual violence.
Sulaima Ishaq al-Khalifa said abuses against women routinely accompanied looting and attacks, with reports of rape often perpetrated as "the family witnessed" the crime.
"There is no age limit. A woman of 85 could be raped, a child of one year could be raped," the trained psychologist said at her home in Port Sudan.
Sudan's women face 'world's worst' sexual violence
Afghan national 'laughed' as he raped 12-year-old girl in broad daylight
Women 'raped and mutilated for standing up to Iran's regime
Islamic militants kill 162 in multiple Nigerian village attacks
How Iran's ruthless enforcers use rape to crush dissent
Migrant filmed hurling vile abuse at female cop and vowing to make her his 'slave'
Brutal ‘rape festival’ in Nigeria sparks outrage worldwide
‘Rape leaflets’ for migrants enrage the British public
He once danced on Broadway. Now he’s behind bars after murdering his lover
Marcus Bellamy was a performer. He danced on Broadway as part of “Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark” and a replacement performer for “Tarzan.” He even has a few television and movie roles in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” “Smash,” and “Across the Universe.”
Now, his resume includes his latest role: convicted murderer. Bronx Supreme Court Justice John W. Carter sentenced Bellamy to 20 years in prison on Tuesday for the murder of his partner.
He once danced on Broadway
'He was set up'
Gay man murdered by roommate who ‘threatened to drink his blood’
Ex-hooker accused of hiring hitman to kill NYC art-dealer hubby
Blood-covered beauty queen releases video of shocking aftermath following attack by celebrity stylist
N.J. man sentenced for murdering stepfather after heated dispute over gay guest
Man charged with killing gay dancer O’Shae Sibley claims self-defense
Naked wacko who allegedly stabbed man in luxe NYC apartment bathtub may have been social media hookup
Entrepreneur shows shocking photo after his lover allegedly attacked him
Gay actor Earl Holliman, star of Police Woman, Twilight Zone, and more, dies at 96
He acted in numerous major films in the 1950s and ’60s, including Giant, with Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, and James Dean; Broken Lance, playing one of the sons of rancher Spencer Tracy; Gunfight at the OK Corral, starring Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas; Forbidden Planet, a retelling of Shakespeare’s The Tempest in outer space; The Sons of Katie Elder, with John Wayne and Dean Martin; and The Rainmaker, starring Lancaster and Katharine Hepburn. He won a Golden Globe as Best Supporting Actor for The Rainmaker, playing Hepburn’s amorous younger brother — a role for which he beat out Elvis Presley.
Gay actor Earl Holliman
Why a Family Would Decline an Autopsy
Gene Hackman died of heart disease, his wife died of hantavirus about 1 week prior
Actress Hayden Panettiere dies at 36
Intersex Teacher Lost His Job After Being Mistaken for Transgender
Scalf, who is intersex and identifies as male, is now at the center of an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filing claiming he was pushed out of his job after a school district allegedly concluded — incorrectly, in his view — that he was transgender.
Intersex Teacher
$65K-a-year private school that replaces teachers with AI makes bold boast in SoCal expansion
Black kids don’t need to be taught a separate language in California
ROBOT teachers rolled out in New York school district compared to teachers using email
Taxpayer-funded trans dolls with removable genitalia to hit classrooms
Southern elementary school erupts as parents bitterly divided over new transgender teacher
First Amendment protects anti-LGBTQ postings
Woman Kills Her Boyfriend’s Son with Her Daughter’s Help
A search of Denise Gay’s computer showed she had made up a fake name and was emailing Martre Coles as a ruse about going to Full Sail University. Her computer also showed she had searched for “GHB” and “suffocation.”
“This case is one of the saddest and most disturbing cases I’ve ever worked,” Davenport said. “She took the time to get to know Martre and learn what made him happy, and she used that as a way to kill him.”
Woman Kills Her Boyfriend’s Son
Woman hit 9-year-old in head with pot for doing dishes wrong
Teens charged with ‘mob action’ allegedly dragged women into woods before beating them up
Boy’s plea on Post-it note uncovers abuse by his father’s girlfriend
She found out a boy was gay. So she tortured him with a knife.
Evil New York family said they took girl, 7, to Disney World as cover so they could torture her to death
Trio of women - two of them transgender - tortured boy, 7, to death
An art professor beat her colleague with a poker after confessing unrequited “love” for the woman
Rie Hachiyanagi, a 48-year-old art professor at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts, has been charged with attempting to murder an unnamed female co-worker over the age of 60 with a rock, a fire poker, and garden shears after the colleague didn’t return Hachiyanagi’s romantic advances. The alleged attack occurred in the early morning hours of Christmas Eve.
An art professor beat her colleague
Kentucky judge accused of having a threesome in the courthouse
Priest removed from ministry after he was busted taking “disturbing” pics of high school wrestlers
Mother walks into daughter's bedroom and finds her being stabbed nearly 20 times
Woman claimed she killed girlfriend in self-defense
Girl, 15, charged with plot to kill classmate blames internet for making her a ‘horrible person’
Ohio woman who took pity on 'homeless' couple decided to take them off the streets
Bisexual wife of female fire captain admits to her murder
“Space crime” allegation leads to arrest of lesbian astronaut’s ex-wife
Summer Worden outed her then-estranged wife, astronaut Anne McClain, when she accused her of illegally attempting to access her bank account from the International Space Station last year. It was dubbed the “first space crime” by the media.
But in a surprising turn of events, Worden has now been indicted and charged with making the whole thing up.
The women were involved in a bitter divorce and custody dispute when Worden made the allegation. Claiming McClain had accessed her account from a NASA computer terminal, Worden filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission and NASA’s Office of Inspector General.
After an investigation, federal prosecutors allege that Worden lied about key details about when the account was opened and whether or not McClain had access to the account still.
“Space crime”
Awful final words of fire captain emerge as wife faces trial for murder at their stunning California home
Scandal at Yale as two top athletics directors are accused of being in a relationship
Utah lawmaker accused of aggressive lesbian sex advances towards FOUR women
Mall security guard suspended over shocking video of him erupting at lesbian shopper and her girlfriend
Teen mom tired of being third wheel in 'throuple' takes anger out on 2-year-old
Woman, 23, says she killed ex-lover with a sword after mistakenly blaming her for horrific gang rape
Woman tried to 'scare' partner by 'dousing' her in alcohol, setting her ablaze
Lesbian couple sue casino after alleged brutal anti-gay attack: ‘They did nothing’
Lesbian throuple implodes after glamorous younger third wheel accused self-help guru lovers of denying her $3.5m payout
Perez Hilton’s family says his children ‘fled’ their home before his reported self-harm livestream
Perez Hilton’s family said his three children, niece and sister were inside the home “minutes before” he publicly livestreamed what appeared to be self-harm amid “a severe mental health crisis.”
Perez Hilton’s family says his children ‘fled’ their home
"In essence, drag queens are clowns. They are not transgender (or haven’t been until very, very recently). They are men, mainly gay..."
"... who make no attempt to pass as actual women, and don’t necessarily want to be women, but dress up as a caricature of a woman. Sure, some have bawdy names, and in the context of a late night gay bar, they can say some bawdy things. But they’re not really about sex at all. They’re about costume and play; their clothes and hair are exaggerated, over-the-top parodies of women’s appearance; their makeup is often cray-cray, their wigs absurd. They also reinforce, rather than undermine, gender norms in a weird, over-the-top way...."
In essence, drag queens are clowns
Why Are Drag Shows Being Targeted By a Federal Judge?
Gay, Not a Fan of EsTitties, Don’t Want to do Drag = I’m Homophobic?
Federal appeals court upholds Florida law restricting drag performances
Trixie Mattel was banned on Instagram for calling gay whales a slur
She was referring to a news item from February, which involved humpback whales. The species was spotted engaging in sexual congress for the first time, and it was a tryst between two male whales.
Trixie Mattel was banned
'Star Wars' Actress 'White People' Remark Sparks Fury
One word is ‘banned’ on a cruise ship
PBS removes drag & trans content
Drag queen performance celebrating Democratic resolution on Oregon House floor draws backlash
Suella Braverman rants that drag queen’s school visit is ‘morally indefensible’
Drag Race icon living in her car after mum told her she’s ‘not welcome’ at home
Drag Race stars pull out of Kennedy Davenport gig over Shangela’s involvement
Male Rape: A Growing Epidemic That Must Be Confronted
A few weeks ago, I read a gripping account of a man in his early thirties who recounted his experience of being raped when he was in his mid 20s. He only recently decided to share his story with others. The person in question made the case that he decided not to use his real name, but rather employed a pseudonym as he told his experience. His story was intense, graphic, gripping, dramatic and gut wrenching. My heart ached at the pain and psychological trauma this man endured and kept concealed from others. Indeed, it was a wonder the level of understandable anguish he harbored did not overwhelm him or cause him to resort to more drastic measures such as suicide.
Over the past few years, we have seen a number of cases where men have been the victims of rape. From the military to college campuses, private homes and other avenues of American society. In fact, a few years ago in 2012, Trey Malone, a junior at Amherst College and a distinguished student both academically and athletically, took his on life after he was unable to deal with the immense trauma and intense emotions he suffered after being the victim of rape by a co-ed.
Male Rape
Private school boys, aged 15, have gang sex attack prosecution paused
Male Israeli hostage sexually assaulted by Hamas captor describes multiple attacks he suffered
Chicago man used gay hookup app, Instagram to lure victims into sexual assaults, blackmail scheme
California hairstylist convicted for heinous sex assault on client in barber chair
Palm Springs man dies while still seeking answers on husband’s death
SIDNEY STARR MUGSHOT AFTER CHILD MOLESTATION, SODOMY ARREST
Stefon Diggs seals sensational return to the NFL with new team... despite ongoing sexual assault legal battle with male influencer
Disgraced Florida pastor allegedly had sex with young teen 3 times
More than 200 LGBT people have been killed in Mexico in just three years
At least 202 LGBT people have been murdered over the past three years in Mexico.
That’s an average of six homicides every month between 2014 and 2016.
“Trans women are the most exposed to this type of lethal violence,” the report’s authors state.
“It is the first time that the number of trans women murdered exceeds the number of gays,” they added.
Mexican civil rights organisation Letra S SIDA reported that criminals had formed gangs dedicated to targeting gay men, whom they first seduce before attacking and robbing them.
More than 200 LGBT people have been killed
Gay and bisexual Sydney teenagers lured and bashed on camera in IS-inspired attacks
Gay Puerto Vallarta ravaged by violence following killing of cartel leader
Senegal approves tougher anti-gay law as rights groups raise concerns
About four in ten Americans still view homosexuality as immoral
LGBTQ+ people attacked in Indonesia as president brands them ‘national threat’
Trans woman BEGS to return to the US after fleeing Trump's America
Thugs who threw fruit at gay couple fined $591
See trans killer's calm confession after she shot both parents dead over gender transition fight
'I don't regret it. I hate them,' Bailey calmly told investigators just after Gail and Joseph Bailey were found shot to death inside their Washington City home in 2024.
See trans killer's calm confession
Woman tied to Zizian vegan trans death cult charged with butchering her parents
Trans gunman caught in alleged casino terror plot with huge cache of weapons
Fired trans Dem campaigner calls on followers to ‘kill your local Republican’ and vows ‘trans jihad’
Transgender Dem party leader arrested after violent role-play ‘scene’
Laguna Beach rocked by alleged slaying of mom by trans son
New Bill Would Criminalize Revealing the Truth About Sex and Identity
Identification Chaos
SB 59 would allow someone to secretly change his or her sex and name together after committing a crime. If a law enforcement officer found official records of their original identity, that officer would be legally prohibited from sharing those records, even in court. People whose sex and accompanying name are tied to past actions or crimes change their sex and a different name, and anyone who shows documentation of the change could be punished. Letting anybody secretly change their sex on official documents at any time radically undermines identity verification and will endanger Californians.
New Bill Would Criminalize Revealing the Truth
Excuse woke Oregon judge made to set free dad who killed 15-month-old daughter
Algerian criminal, 27, with raft of convictions dodges deportation after claiming to be gay and transgender
Fury over claim transgender teenagers should be allowed to shoplift
Female prisoner 'hurled in locked cell' after complaining that she had been raped by one of three trans sex predators housed there
Trans activists play the victim after San Francisco cops cracked down on their vandalism and thuggery at recent march
LGB Alliance’s claim ‘94% of LGB unhappy with LGBTQ+ label’ isn’t what it seems