White House Gags Older Gays

Once every 10 years authorities on aging gather for the White House Conference on Aging (WHCoA). They meet, present papers and make recommendations to the President and the Congress on national aging policies for the future.

The 2005 WHCoA is the fifth in the history of the United States and the first of the 21st Century.

But, this conference, under the Bush Administration, any discussion on aging in the LGBT community has been squelched.

Today at a press conference elder advocates challenged the administration for refusing to include sexual orientation, gender identity and other vulnerable populations in its resolutions.

http://www.365gay.com/Newscon05/12/121305aging.htm

Don't ya just know that the White House's "unoffcial" response was something like "but all you fags are supposed to die of AIDS before you're 65."

Fucking disgusting ... which is pretty much par for the course for our Closet Queen and Chief.

They are thoroughly disgusting.

and beating at the coffin lid, but this administration is already as good as buried.

It will be just one more nasty thing to roll into the history books about them - that gays were dehumanized by this administration to the point that we weren't allowed to show the particular needs of aging in the GLBT community.

I mean really, first we are demonized and institutionalized, treated like mentally ill and criminals, then we are decimated by an epidemic fatal disease and have to take care of each other when nobody else would, even family, when undertakers wouldn't even bury us, and those of us who stayed healthy and survived now have to face the ideas of aging in a society where doctors can refuse to treat you on moral grounds merely because you're gay.

And this fucking administration wants to play make believe about aging in the GLBT community? Is there any bottom to this cesspool of humanity that calls themselves social conservatives? I don't see it.

I can't believe how succinctly you were able to sum up what I was feeling when I first read this thread.

An excellent post that sums up exactly how I feel.

I really, really, hope that the beating at the coffin lid as you so wisely put it stops soon.
Then we will know they are dead.

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GROW THE FUCK UP!



If people find happiness with somebody what difference does it make?

BTW how many gays work for bush & the republicans?

GW's blatant homophobia is eerily reminiscent of his mentor Ronald Reagan...