Visual History: Intimate and Beautiful Portraits of Italian Older Gay Men

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2020/aug/24/wish-it-was-a-coming-out-older-gay-people-in-italy-in-pictures

Public Health Has an Equity Problem: A Latinx's Voice

Public Health Has an Equity Problem: A Latinx's Voice: Public health has an equity problem. One of the main pillars of our public health system, schools and academic programs of public health, are under the control of white (heterosexual) faculty. They continue to exclude brown, black, and indigenous people from their faculty and leadership ranks. This racism pervades institutional policies and culture and is a major fault in the quest for health equity. In this essay, I center on the experience of Latinx faculty to examine the roots of this inequity and the arguments for diversity and inclusion. I also propose avenues for change and argue for institutional transformation that goes beyond adding people of color to faculty and leadership roles.

Don't ask a question for which you know the answer already

Last night -- the 30th-something day of shelter in place -- I watched Chavela -- the documentary of the great Chavela Vargas. What treat! Then, I found out, this morning, that Almodovar had a similar night, a few weeks ago, in is home in Madrid.


Cliche it might be, but the universe is small.

Chavela defies labels -- she is not, or was not, a lesbian -- she and her friends corroborate this. She does not fit our current categories of LGBTQ. She lived in a different cultural language, one in which "don't ask a question for which you know the answer already" was the social norm. She was out, a womanizer, a recurrent drinking buddy with the guys, a a bit homophobic, and a queer heroine for many in Latin American and Spain.


She once thought a boy how to use a gun to make him macho, less feminine. She wanted to make him masculine. She rejected labels and applied them, at the sametime -- unable to escape them.

Do We Want to Stop HIV?

Reflections of a Thirty-Year Veteran of the Fight Against HIV --
https://aumag.org/2019/09/09/do-we-want-to-stop-hiv/

FIFTY YEARS AFTER STONEWALL GAY MEN ARE QUEERING AGING

What aging and queer share: Shame. We shame the weak, unkempt and uncontrollable old self as we shame queers. Don’t run away from it, let’s embrace shame, yet again.

See my latest piece @ Discover Society

Why Ageism Never Gets Old

Tad Friend's story in The New Yorker reminds us of the difficulties we have fighting against the stigma of old age and why, perhaps, we will never win this fight. "The prejudice is an ancient habit, but new forces—in Silicon Valley, Hollywood, and beyond—have restored its youthful vitality."

Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death

This story, by Norimitsu Onishi of the NYT, is a fascinating, yet sad look at aging in Japan -- but with so many implications for all of us. We, societies, define and create older age, we decide how to live in old age.