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<h3 align="center">'''Community Experts on LGBTQ Housing and Ageing Issues'''</h3>
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<p>The HIV/AIDS crisis has been a primary issue for the LGBTQ community from the late twentieth century to today.  While it is a challenging one on many fronts, it has been embraced by the LGBTQ community as an important and defining part of its history that led to further refinements and sophistication of its collective activism.</p>
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<p>Two prominent topics within the LGBTQ community today are those of ageing and housing.  While both issues have their distinct characteristics and challenges, they also overlap and share several common issues.  These include concerns such as discrimination, homelessness, and health.</p>
  
<p>The momentum forward in LGBTQ activism would face a major stumbling block in the 1980s: the emergence of an unusual and hitherto unknown aggressive form of cancer detected particularly in the gay communityBy September 1982, the CDC had adopted the name Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) as a label for this cancerous disease for which the patients all appeared to have no likelihood of resistance.</p>
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<p>There has been significant research published on both issues in the past few years and this has raised their profile around the worldThis research has encouraged local activists to step up their work to address the concerns.  This focus mirrors changes in society itself, where the population is ageing and housing is becoming less affordable for the average individual.</p>
  
<p>The fear amongst health workers (and other organizations such as police, firefighters, and funeral homes) to admit and properly treat victims of the disease led LGBTQ community activists to establish stand-alone AIDS clinics and chronic disease treatment centres around the worldThe first of such was in 1982 when the Bailey-Boushay House in Seattle, Washington openedOther countries followed suit, such as Australia with St. Vincent’s (1983), England with London Lighthouse (1986), Canada with Casey House (1988), and Scotland with Waverly Care (1989).</p>  
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<p>Many LGBTQ individuals within the community play an active role in both housing and ageing issuesSome are politicians and government ministers whose remit includes these areas.  Others are with activist organizations such as: SAGE and Aging With Pride in the United States; Egale in Canada; or Stonewall Housing, the Albert Kennedy Trust, and HouseProud in Great BritainSeveral high profile celebrities have made these issues their point of focus, including television actor [[Robert Gant]] and interior designer [[Todd Oldham]].</p>
  
<p>By the end of 1985, there were 20,303 cases worldwide reported to the World Health Organization.  This grew to 71,750 cases by the end of 1987.  At this stage, AIDS had become identified as a ‘gay disease’ and homophobia escalated.  Thus began a series of more publicly visible actions by the LGBTQ community around the disease.  AIDS activist [[Cleve Jones]] in the United States began the high-profile AIDS Memorial Quilt in 1986 wherein each panel of a quilt would memorialize an individual lost to AIDS.  Some New York activists (led by [[Larry Kramer]]) in 1987 formed a new organization called ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) to employ more direct action tactics to press for concrete plans to attack the disease and counter the homophobia it was generating.  Identically named, or similar, organizations were formed in Paris, London (including [[Terrence Higgins]] Trust (1982), Stonewall (1989), OutRage (1990)), and Berlin.  The notion was to transition the community from its portrayal as disease ‘victims’ into activist ‘experts’.</p> 
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<p>We have found LGBTQ individuals active on LGBTQ housing and ageing issues in Australia, Canada, Chile, France, Great Britain, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, and the United States. To read more and see the complete list '''[[Community Experts on LGBTQ Housing and Ageing Issues|CLICK HERE]]'''</p>
 
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<p>The first International AIDS Conference was held in Montreal in 1989, being a mix of activists and scientific medical practitioners.  Today, medical advances have changed the AIDS disease from a death-sentence to a chronic illness in the developed world.  Great attention is paid today by many activists to HIV/AIDS within the less developed world.</p>
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<p>We have identified prominent LGBTQ HIV/AIDS activists from Algeria, Australia, Botswana, Brazil, Cameroon, Canada, China, Brazil, El Salvador, France, Germany, Great Britain, India, Italy, Jamaica, Mexico, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Puerto Rico, South Africa, Spain, St. Lucia, Trinidad & Tobago, United States, Venezuela, and Zambia. To read more and see the complete list '''[[Global HIV/AIDS Activists|CLICK HERE]]'''</p>
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'''Directory of past 'Did You Know?' Articles''' [[Past 'Did You Know?' Articles|See Here]]
 
'''Directory of past 'Did You Know?' Articles''' [[Past 'Did You Know?' Articles|See Here]]

Revision as of 19:56, 14 October 2018

DID YOU KNOW?

Community Experts on LGBTQ Housing and Ageing Issues

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Two prominent topics within the LGBTQ community today are those of ageing and housing. While both issues have their distinct characteristics and challenges, they also overlap and share several common issues. These include concerns such as discrimination, homelessness, and health.

There has been significant research published on both issues in the past few years and this has raised their profile around the world. This research has encouraged local activists to step up their work to address the concerns. This focus mirrors changes in society itself, where the population is ageing and housing is becoming less affordable for the average individual.

Many LGBTQ individuals within the community play an active role in both housing and ageing issues. Some are politicians and government ministers whose remit includes these areas. Others are with activist organizations such as: SAGE and Aging With Pride in the United States; Egale in Canada; or Stonewall Housing, the Albert Kennedy Trust, and HouseProud in Great Britain. Several high profile celebrities have made these issues their point of focus, including television actor Robert Gant and interior designer Todd Oldham.

We have found LGBTQ individuals active on LGBTQ housing and ageing issues in Australia, Canada, Chile, France, Great Britain, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, and the United States. To read more and see the complete list CLICK HERE

Directory of past 'Did You Know?' Articles See Here


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