Wrinkles

... rabble news History of discrimination against gays and lesbians In the recent past, lesbians and gays have been treated as mentally ill and have been subjected to conversion “therapies,” including electroshock treatment.

We have been targeted by discriminatory laws, such as an immigration law which prohibited our entry into this country and subjected those who were immigrants to the threat of deportation (1952-1977), as well as a penal law which criminalized certain forms of gay male sexual expression and rendered gay men vulnerable to indefinite incarceration as “dangerous sexual offenders” (1892-1969).

Gay and lesbian seniors face health-care obstacles When gay and lesbian seniors were growing up, homosexuality was still illegal and/or treated as a psychiatric disorder.

Common “treatment” used to include lobotomies and shock therapy, if not jail.

>by Gilles Marchildon March 27, 2006 Ageing is not always easy.

As if wrinkles and arthritis weren't bad enough, you might have to hide your identity.

Earlier this month, two McGill University researchers released a study which shows gay and lesbian seniors face huge obstacles when seeking adequate health care.

From 2003 to this past January, 90 people were interviewed in Vancouver, Montreal and Halifax.

Participants included 38 gay and lesbian seniors as well as 31 health-care providers and 21 caregivers like partners, children and friends.

The study concludes that discrimi...

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