Europe’s first retirement home for LGBT people – the Rainbow House – has opened in Stockholm, with a ceremony attended by bishop Eva Brunne and Commissioner for the Elderly Joakim Larsson of the conservative Moderate party, reports Radio Sweden. The Rainbow House takes up the top three floors of an eight-storey apartment building in central Stockholm,…
(The article this week is from Rev. Elder Don Eastman – former vice moderator for Metropolitan Community Churches and retired minister.) A few months ago more than 1,500 people from Metropolitan Community Churches (MCC) all over the world gathered in Chicago for our 25th General Conference. Again and again, every day we heard wonderful stories…
SAN DIEGO —The Department of Veterans Affairs was among the last of the federal government organizations to extend benefits to same-sex couples, but now gay spouses are eligible to receive VA-back home loans, in states where their marriages are legally recognized. The VA Home Loan Centers, which operates as a privately held government loan specialist…
How many of you have seen the reality TV show Extreme Hoarders? I have a hard time throwing mementoes away. And most everything I have is attached to a story or a memory. I know there’s no one else that has boxes of stuff from years ago piled up in corners and attics and storage…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sens. Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Christopher Murphy (D-CT), Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), and John McCain (R-AZ), all members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, have sent a letter to President Obama urging him to use his upcoming trip to the G-20 Leaders’ Summit in St. Petersburg, Russia, as an opportunity to call attention to the…
A paralyzed LGBT Navy Officer and his partner have become the latest beneficiaries of local San Diego charity Embrace’s, (www.embrace1.org) home restoration program. The program, Mission: H3 healing our heroes’ homes is about to send a team to start renovating U.S. Navy Commander Brian Delaney’s home. Watch the video and hear Brian’s story and how…
Today, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a memo clarifying that all beneficiaries in private Medicare plans have access to equal coverage when it comes to care in a nursing home where their spouse lives. This is the first guidance issued by HHS in response to the recent Supreme Court ruling, which…
There are some big changes that occur for 50-years-olds. Of course, there is the gray hair (if you have any left) and larger mid-section. But you also have some different rules for saving for retirement. We’ll get to those in a second. First, we need to talk about the big picture. Your 50s is the…
When I was at grad school one of my professors gave me an old book that described homosexual life in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The book was an example of ethnographic research whereby the author/researcher immersed herself into the world of gay people (mostly men) to understand the subculture from within. The hardcover…
Is there a house for everyone here in our neck of the woods? The answer is yes. I’ve gone through our database and selected the two extremes, the least and most expensive active properties in our inventory. I thought you’d get a kick out of comparing the two. The starter home, the most affordable in…
