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The Public Health Management Corporation released a wide-ranging, first-of-its-kind report on the needs of local LGBT seniors.

The gay community is youth obsessed, and Hollywood is preoccupied with one’s image. So how does it fare for those LGBTs who are gay and gray and living in LA?

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) seniors often have no biological family advocating for them and are becoming increasingly dependent on outside services.

The many issues facing LGBT seniors - including housing, access to health care, and diversity - were discussed at a recent daylong conference presented by the Institute on Aging.

Project planners, LGBT-civil rights pioneers and public officials will mark the start of construction on Philadelphia’s LGBT-friendly low-income senior housing complex, the first urban project of its kind, located in the heart of the Gayborhood.

Minnesota is one of four states with gay marriage on the November ballot, and gay rights supporters hope to win over some senior citizens, who vote in high numbers and have been a key factor in the decisions in the other states, like California.

The hunt is on to find $53 million to build what project sponsors say will be the country’s largest affordable housing development for LGBT seniors.

The White House LGBT Conference on Aging presenters stressed the need and benefits to reaching out to LGBT senior neighbors who may be hesitant about self-identification as LGBT.

They say straight men get better with age, but is the same true of gay men? For a community with so many obsessions around beauty and image, the idea of turning 40 can be brutally intimidating.

The upcoming film Beginners looks at what happens when a 70-year old man comes out to his son. EDGE spoke to director Mike Mills about how he came to make the film, which stars Christopher Plummer and Ewan McGregor.