Posted: December 11, 2020
Fans may recognize Luke Evans as the mighty Apollo from Clash of the Titans or the virile Zeus from Immortals. Given this mythical cinematic lineage, the openly gay actor’s coming out must have been epic, right? We’re picturing a closet door exploding into a hurricane of splinters as his burly frame muscles its way into … Posted: December 3, 2020
Matthew Richardson’s journey has followed a circuitous path. For the former Cirque du Soleil performer, you might even say literally, having mastered the art of spinning on the Cyr wheel in everything from a voluminous red dress and heels to nothing but a pair of form fitting oh-so-short shorts and a lot of body glitter …
I refused to let them intimidate me : the untold stories of LGBT+ seniors Nadja Sayej
When Pearl Bennett, now 69, came out as a transgender woman at a family dinner when she was 50, she wasn’t warmly embraced.
Bennett’s mother leaned in and asked: “What is all this?”
“I saw that look in my mother’s eyes, she was a little drunk,” recalls Bennett.
“I felt ostracized by my family.”
This heartbreaking anecdote and many more are part of Not Another Second, an exhibition in New York City which tells the stories of a dozen LGBT+ senior citizens who tell their own coming out stories. Each photographic portrait and video interview is marked with a number, like “16 years”, representing the time they lost to staying in the closet, based on societal expectations of the past.
New exhibit a reminder of the struggles and strengths of LGBTQ seniors
Not Another Second provides unique insight into the lives of LGBTQ seniors
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The new multi-media art exhibition
Not Another Second provides a moving reminder that behind the rights and protections now enjoyed by the LGBTQ community was an often dark and difficult time that left many scars among today’s LGBTQ seniors.
“In those days, you know, we’re talking about a whole different era, when that was no acceptance of gay people. With my partner, we couldn’t get married. You couldn’t do much of anything,” recalls Dominic “Nick” Procaccino, an 87-year-old resident of Palm Desert, Calif.
This Brooklyn Exhibition Displays the Stories of LGBTQ+ Seniors
‘Not Another Second’ explores what it’s like coming out later in life
A dozen LGBTQ+ seniors share their stories in Not Another Second, an exhibition and short documentary.
Not Another Second January 19, 2021
Ronnie Gilliard Ellis Jr. met Earl, his partner of 44 years, in his thirties. But it wasn’t until the two were “well over 50” that they began coming out to others as a couple.
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