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| Gen Silent |
Join the Rainbow Health Initiative for an screening of Gen Silent, an important documentary about our oldest community members and the problems they face.
About the film
"What would you do if you were old, disabled or ill - and the person feeding you put down the spoon and said that you are going to hell unless you change your sexual preference? Sound absurd? Social workers around the world say it’s happening every day." -via
August 11 at 7pm
St. Anthony Main Theatre
more info and trailer after the jump
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Tickets are
$5 in advance
$10 at the door
$5 for seniors
Click HERE for tickets
"Unlike any film before, Gen Silent startlingly discovers how oppression in the years before Stonewall now affects older lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people with fear and isolation. Many who won the first civil rights victories for generations to come are now dying prematurely because they are reluctant to ask for help and have too few friends or family to care for them.Gen Silent shows the disparity in the quality of paid caregiving from mainstream care facilities committed making their LGBT residents safe and happy, to places where LGBT elders face discrimination by staff and bullying by other seniors. As we watch the challenges that these men and women face, we are offered new hope as each person crosses paths with impassioned people trying to change LGBT aging for the better." -via
