Everybody knows music does magic in those with dementia
But who provides the LGBT elderly person living with dementia the music for them?
Probably no-one, therefor we need: A list with popular pride songs throughout the years and LGBT’ ers who will buddy up with LGBT elderly with dementia.
Why a list with pride songs through the years? Because the music we heard and listened due between the age of 15 & 25 is so deeply rooted in our brain that even dementia cannot destroy these music memories.
So mail, app, tweet the songs you know where popular in the LGBT world
For example: Don’t Leave Me This Way – The Communards 1986 – 1996. This is my life – Shirley Bassey – 1968 till 1980. Over the Rainbow – Judy Garland – 1930 till 1960.
Some songs were popular for just a year while other songs stay popular for a decade. Tell us, share you knowledge.
Together we can create a pride music list which makes it easy to bring pride happiness into the life of LGBT with dementia.
If a song was only popular in Wales, Scotland, Ireland or England Tell us
It makes the pride list stronger and better. I want to know the popular pride songs from 1940 till 1980. So that we don’t forget those with early onset dementia.
So give a shout out, ask around, tell everybody, share and RT if you know disc jockeys, producers, music connoisseurs ask them to help.
We can do! How more how better. If you should get dementia would you like to hear your pride music or would you be happy listen to the impersonal music the nurses likes??
Send here your input to us
The title of the song – The artist – Years of popularity – Country
The LGBT Culural Revolution
before Stonewall
Pride Music in the ’60
It Got Better Featuring
George Takei
LGBT Seniors Tell
Their Stories
Shout it out !!
When you know elderly lgbt people, tell them about this campaign and if they are not handy with nowadays communication help them.
Write down the songs or tape the conversation. If they agree make a video. Let them tell the stories about the power of music in the hidden pride years. send the video to us and we put it on the site.
Great source of information are the bartenders, disc jockeys, club owners, of those time, they know the songs by heart. Maybe there are books about pride music – please tell me.
LGBT History by the Decades
The Roaring Twenties 1
LGBT History by the Decades
The World at War Episode 2
LGBT History by the Decades
Age of Conformity Episode 3
LGBT History by the Decades
The Golden Age Episode 4
Spread the message in your own LGBT network
Not Back in the Closet
Many lgbt elder go back in the closet when they enters a care home. This is the lgbt generation who has fight for the rights which we have today. By helping and joying in with this campaign you can say thank you to these lgbt fighters.
We can help them to stay out of the closet. When we buddy up with a LGBT elder, they have someone to speak with and a someone who can speak up for them.
Together we can realize an ambiance where future lbgt elderly does not have to go back in the closet when they entering a care home. By helping LGBT elder we are changing care-home culture where we will benefit from in future.
LGBT Elders go back
into the closet
Discrimination of LGBT
Seniors
LGBT suffering homophobic
bullying from care staff
Gay Anthems by
Brendan Kennedy
buddy up with a LGBT elderly with dementia
Does it Get Better for LGBT Seniors?
A Look at Services and Housing for This At-Risk Community Closets are for clothes. Human beings don’t belong in them.
In 2014, I wrote about looking for – and finding in several instances – signs of hope for LGBT seniors either in need of inclusive services and housing options, or soon to be.
What I wrote then is true now. There is a great need for LGBT senior services and housing options, which have gained steam in the last decade, led by the rise of older LGBT baby boomers. But there’s still work to do. Is it getting better for LGBT seniors who need help and a place to live? Read here the full article
LGBTQ seniors face
discrimination in long-term care
Patrick Mizelle and Edwin Fisher, who have been together for 37 years, were planning to grow old in their home state of Georgia.
But visits to senior living communities left them worried that after decades of living openly, marching in pride parades and raising money for gay causes, they wouldn’t feel as free in their later years.
“I thought, ‘Have I come this far only to have to go back in the closet and pretend we are brothers?” said Mizelle. “We have always been out and we didn’t want to be stuck in a place where we couldn’t be. Read here the full article
Wanna have a Pride Music List for your country? Contact me and let’s start
It Got Better Featuring
Ian McKellen
Creating a Care Facility
Welcoming to LGBT Seniors
