GenPride Newsletter September 2
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5 Races to Help You Celebrate Pride Month
In honor of pride month, here are some of the best races you can run this summer and fall.
Each year I participated in the Pride Run, it featured high-energy fields, festive costumes, and a relatively late start that helpfully accommodates Friday night shenanigans. In addition to a wider section of the LGBTQ community and our allies, families, and rainbow-festooned pets, it’s a great chance to see all the fiercely competitive local crews in action. The North Brooklyn runners, the Reservoir Dogs, the Dashing Whippets, and of course, the Front Runners–they come from …
Welcome to Pride Place, the state’s first LGBTQ senior housing community
By Marc Stiles – Senior Reporter, Puget Sound Business Journal Jun 9, 2022
Updated Jun 10, 2022, 7:37 am PDT
This Pride Month, the Seattle LGBTQ community can celebrate that it will soon have a newly built senior center to call its own.
The GenPride center will be at the base of Pride Place, a $52.2 million project that includes 118 income restricted apartments. Under construction at 1519 Broadway in the heart of Capitol Hill, it’s the state’s first LGBTQIA+ senior housing community.
There are LGBTQ-focused housing projects elsewhere in the country. What’s unique about Pride Place is that community organization GenPride will own …
GenPride Hannah Gadsby at The Moore Ticket Giveaway!
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Inside a Home for L.G.B.T.Q. Seniors: ‘I Made Friends Here.’ (New York Times Article)
Shunned when they were younger, older L.G.B.T.Q. adults have found a community at a senior home created for them by SAGE, a New York advocacy group. (original story: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/04/22/realestate/lgbtq-senior-housing-new-york.html)
By Gregory Schmidt and Photographs By Todd Heisler, April 22, 2022
She was a teenager growing up in Queens when her mother kicked her out of the house for having a girlfriend. It was the 1960s, and being gay was “taboo,” Diedra Nottingham remembered. With nowhere to turn, she wound up sleeping in parks and hallways.
Over the years, Ms. Nottingham, now 71, struggled to maintain stable housing, sometimes living with friends or relatives, …
Holiday Break
A reminder that the GenPride office will be closed for winter holiday break, from Friday Dec 24 through Sunday Jan 2. Our ongoing fitness classes will also take a break during that time. We are back to a regular schedule on Monday Jan 3, 2022. Happy holidays!…
Pride Place Construction Updates
It’s been a successful month of construction at the Pride Place project!
We have completed the demolition of the Atlas building, and we have salvaged pieces of the landmark structures that will be part of the new Pride Place. GenPride is excited to have these pieces of history be a part of the new housing and community center.
The project has now moved on to the installation of the perimeter soldier piles.
Watch the video below for a neat 360-degree aerial view of the construction site!
Fact Sheet: Health Disparities by Race and Ethnicity
Download this fact sheet (pdf)
Below are the facts that outline racial and ethnic health care disparities in the United States. The reports “ Easing the Burden: Using Health Care Reform to Address Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care for the Chronically Ill” and “ Measuring the Gaps: Collecting Data to Drive Improvements in Health Care Disparities” outline how robust implementation of provisions in the Affordable Care Act can help address these disparities and ensure that all Americans, regardless of race and ethnicity,
3 Differences Between the Terms ‘Gay’ and ‘Queer’ — and Why It Matters
Originally posted by Hari Ziyad at https://everydayfeminism.com/2016/03/difference-between-gay-queer/
For a while, I thought I was gay. And maybe I was for some of that time – there’s nothing wrong with being gay. But I’m definitely not now.
I thought I was gay because I thought I was a man, and I thought I was only and always attracted to other men.
I don’t know what gender I am anymore, if any. I knew before coming to that particular realization that I’m also not only, and haven’t always been, attracted to men. Additionally, I realized I don’t know what exactly “attraction” means.…
Most LGBTQ People are Cyberbullied. Here’s How to Stay Safe Online
Originally posted by Sarah Turner at https://www.vpnmentor.com/blog/lgbtq-guide-online-safety/
We at vpnMentor conducted a survey in which we asked 695 LGBTQ+ people worldwide about their experiences online as they relate to their sexual orientation and gender identity. The results – referenced throughout this article – illuminated the unique challenges faced by the LGBTQ+ community.
Here are some of our key findings:+
- 73% of all respondents in all categories of gender identity and sexual orientation have been personally attacked or harassed online.
- 50% of all respondents in all categories of gender identity and sexual orientation have suffered sexual harassment online.
- When it
How simply moving benefits your mental health
While it is obvious that your feelings can influence your movement, it is not as obvious that your movement can impact your feelings too. For example, when you feel tired and sad, you may move more slowly. When you feel anxious, you may either rush around or become completely paralyzed. But recent studies show that the connection between your brain and your body is a “two-way street” and that means movement can change your brain, too!
How exercise can improve mood disorders
Regular aerobic exercise can reduce anxiety by making your brain’s “fight or flight” system less reactive. When anxious …
