He came out of the closet here, got a job at the National Endowment for the Arts where his boss was a gay Republican, and "lost my virginity in D.C. on August 27, 1980," he says, chuckling. The bars and clubs were packed with gay men and women — Republican and Democratic — and almost all of them deep in the closet. "It's really easy for Pride to be about young people and parties," says Sophie Fisher, LGBTQ program coordinator for Seabury Resources for Aging, a company that runs queer-friendly retirement homes and assisted-living facilities and which organized a pair of Silver Pride events last month for LGBTQ+ people over age 55.
Author: ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press
Published at: 2025-06-09 20:30:00
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