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Come join us for a fascinating conversation with Amy Simon and Dr. David Rosen of LGBT Senior Housing and Care as we delve into the topic of aging within the LGBT community. They work with long term care providers, providing training to ensure that the facilities are welcoming and affirming to LGBT residents. ** ** **We discuss: **

• The importance of the Equality Act
• **The correlation between the enactment of legislation that protects the LGBT community and a concomitant decrease in suicide and depression rates **
• **The politically-charged ostracism and “othering” of the trans community **
• The LTC Bill of Rights that exists in only three states in the nation, requiring LGBT training for providers
• **Lack of data to effect change - In the last LGBT elder census in 2011, 39% had suicidal ideation, and when narrowed to just the trans community, the number was 71%. Dr. Rosen observed that was well before these days of regressive, anti-trans laws, so those numbers must be even higher today. **

**  ** In addition, we talk about the fact that nobody is only ever one thing, i.e., blind, older, or gay. In fact, we are all many things. We belong to different categories, but we are all human and worthy of respect and compassion. ** ** ** Intersectionality is a bad word to some, but it is our reality. We discuss ways to chip away at the mindset that you can only focus on one area of your identity. ** ** ** We cover issues such as LGBT seniors who have been out their whole lives having to make the decision to go back into the closet due to the likelihood of homophobia and mistreatment within a communal living environment. ** ** LGBT Senior Housing and Care offers training to providers to ensure that senior housing communities give their LGBT residents care that is appropriate to their needs, including legal issues, adult day care, recreation, home care, Alzheimer’s, and many other areas.

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BPI partnering with Eric Marcus of Making Gay History and Miss Debbie Grubb present the first of 4 informative sessions.

Hosted by Gabriel Lopez Kafati (current BPI president and ACB Board member) this session will focus on major voices of LGBTQ advocacy; what made them stand out, working within and out of the systems and how they inspired over 50 years of strident advocacy. Lessons of Advocacy from the LGBTQ Community. Our guest for this presentation is Eric Marcus, moderator of the podcast, Making Gay History. He will share with us his insights and experiences from the front lines from when and where it all began. We will hear the voices of many of the pioneers of the movement from his archives.

Let’s learn together from their history to teach and awaken in the blindness community how to use our anger balanced with our sense of doing the right for the cause to move us forward from a place, of impotent anger, into a place of positive, unified action toward the end of making our common rights, goals and needs recognized, understood and achieved. Let’s use this history of a group of individuals who risked it all to build a bridge upon which they continue to march into the light and dignity of full inclusion into American society, recognition of their diversity, their freedom of choice and their civil right to equality of opportunity to achieve their own unique visions of the American Dream. . After all, isn’t this what we want? Isn’t this what we have the right to?

Eric will share with us the voices of many who in his words; “Made Good Trouble” and after the presentation we will discuss how what they stood for and accomplished can help us “Make Good Trouble”

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This is a slightly edited version of the holiday episode we did in 2022. We will return with a new episode in 2 weeks.

This week several BPI members got together to discuss the unique obstacles we face as blind LGBTQ+ people during the holidays. We discuss everything from dealing with how our families react to our sexuality and gender identity when we get together for the festive season, to overcoming challenges with depression when everyone else seems so jolly. This episode was extremely cathartic to be a part of and we encourage you to write in with your comments at [email protected].

Episode Notes

BPI partnering with Eric Marcus of Making Gay History and Miss Debbie Grubb present the first of 4 informative sessions.

Hosted by Gabriel Lopez Kafati (current BPI president and ACB Board member) this session will focus on major voices of LGBTQ advocacy; what made them stand out, working within and out of the systems and how they inspired over 50 years of strident advocacy.

Lessons of Advocacy from the LGBTQ Community. Our guest for this presentation is Eric Marcus, moderator of the podcast, Making Gay History. He will share with us his insights and experiences from the front lines from when and where it all began. We will hear the voices of many of the pioneers of the movement from his archives.
Let's learn together from their history to teach and awaken in the blindness community how to use our anger balanced with our sense of doing the right for the cause to move us forward from a place, of impotent anger, into a place of positive, unified action toward the end of making our common rights, goals and needs recognized, understood and achieved. Let's use this history of a group of individuals who risked it all to build a bridge upon which they continue to march into the light and dignity of full inclusion into American society, recognition of their diversity, their freedom of choice and their civil right to equality of opportunity to achieve their own unique visions of the American Dream. . After all, isn't this what we want? Isn't this what we have the right to?

Eric will share with us the voices of many who in his words; “Made Good Trouble” and after the presentation we will discuss how what they stood for and accomplished can help us “Make Good Trouble”

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This week's show is a recording of our Candidates Forum from 11/05/2022. Please tune in to hear what our 3 amazing candidates have to say. Leah Gardner is running for President, Anthony Corona is running for Vice President, and Maria Kristic is running for Treasurer. We have an open position of Secretary and we hope to see some nominations from the floor. Be sure to vote via your Electronic Ballot or in person at our business meeting on 11/13/2022.

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We're currently preparing for our annual business meeting and election, so we are taking a bit of a hiatus. We will be back in November! Here's a rerun of our 2 Year Anniversary show. Enjoy!

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This week on Pride Connection, we interviewed Randy Reed and Destiny DiMattei about AceCon, a virtual conference for people who are asexual. Please join us on ACB Media 1 at 10 PM Eastern every week, or download Pride Connection wherever you get your podcasts. If you have questions for our guests or would like to suggest a show topic idea, please send an e-mail to [email protected].

UK AceCon YouTube Channel: https://youtube.com/c/AVENLivestreams

Changeling’s Guide to Discord for Screen Reader Users https://www.starshipchangeling.net/discord/

AceAdvice YouTube Channel: https://youtube.com/c/AceDadAdvice

Swank Ivy‘s YouTube Channel: https://youtube.com/user/swankivy

The Asexual Visibility & Education Network (AVEN): http://www.asexuality.org

Sounds Fake But Okay Podcast: https://www.soundsfakepod.com/

Jenna DeWitt Twitter Feed: https://twitter.com/jenna_dewitt?s=21&t=dG8gTBeGpps0K7XAgcNTMg

Yasmin Benoit, MSc Twitter Feed: https://twitter.com/theyasminbenoit?s=21&t=dG8gTBeGpps0K7XAgcNTMg

Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture by Sherronda J. Brown https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B09NLPTC4R/ref=cm_sw_r_awdo_T3BYA3RYBVJED5AC5V80

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Have you ever wondered how people who are blind or visually impaired create visual art?  Ever wanted to go to an art museum but weren't sure how much of the experience you'd be able to take in?   Lots of work is being done to make visual art spaces more accessible, and you can listen in to find out how!  Join us for Pride Connection where art creators and consumers will share their experiences. Who knows, you might even find some inspiration to dabble in some type of creative medium too!  Search for Pride connection on your podcast catcher of choice; produced by Blind Pride International.  

You can find Pride Connection every Tuesday on ACB Media 1 at 10pm EDT Try asking your devices to: Play ACB Media and choose Stream 1

Or by going to ACBMedia.org and searching for Pride Connection under podcasts

Pride connection is also available on all major Podcast catchers

Questions and comments for the show can be sent to: [email protected]

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This is a training that we did on zoom which resulted in an edited version released on Pride Connection. Pride Connection airs on ACB media 1 on Tuesday night at 10 PM Eastern and will be available on all major podcast catchers shortly after. We discussed fat liberation, myth busting, history and why these things are important to the LGBTQIA+ and disabled communities. Goals that were covered are:

• Understand fat liberation as a movement (different than body positivity, self-love, body-neutrality etc.)
• Reshape assumptions about fatness (myth busters)
• Draw connections between fat liberation and other movements (intersectional approach for solidarity) - LGBTQ and disability justice movements.
• Understand that fat oppression is part of Black genocide (Da’Shaun’s thesis) and that anti-Blackness is part of fat oppression.
• Find ways to apply our conversation to daily work e.g. photos of folks of all sizes on our movement’s websites.
• Beyond our daily work, how does diet culture and weight stigma show up in relationships with each other?

Here is a list of the resources mentioned in the Fat Lib 101 training:

• Fat Rose organizes fat radicals to embed fat politics on the left, contributing to building an intersectional fat liberation movement. We do this by developing and promoting radical and intersectional fat-centered political analysis, and offering incubation spaces for radical fat activists, thinkers, artists, and organizers to dream big about how to bring fat politics into social movements. 
• Website: https://fatrose.org/
• Contact: [email protected] 
• Fat Mutual Aid: Promoting fat mutual aid rooted in intersectional fat liberation + solidarity.
• Sabrina Strings: Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia - https://nyupress.org/9781479886753/fearing-the-black-body/ 
• Da’Shaun Harrison’s Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness -https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/670607/belly-of-the-beast-by-dashaun-harrison/ 
• Fat & Queer anthology - https://www.fatandqueer.com/ 
• Jes Baker’s Landwhale: On Turning Insults Into Nicknames, Why Body Image is Hard, and How Diets Can Kiss My Ass  - http://www.themilitantbaker.com/p/the-book-things-no-one-will-tell-fat.html 
• NAAFA: The National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance is a non-profit, all volunteer, fat rights organization dedicated to protecting the rights and improving the quality of life for fat people - https://naafa.org/

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This week a group of BPI members get together and discuss what it was like growing up LGBTQ+, and how things have changed since then. We also provide resources for LGBTQ+ youth and their parents. For more information about BPI please visit us at http://www.blindlgbtpride.org.