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	<title>openhouse dedicated to creating and sustaining a senior residential community that honors lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) seniors.</title>
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		<title>Statement Regarding Closure of New Leaf</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 19:54:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Seth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In response to the announced closing of New Leaf Services for Our Community, Openhouse Executive Director, Seth Kilbourn, made the following statement: The closure of New Leaf Services for Our Community is a devastating loss for the LGBT community.  For over 30 years New Leaf has provided critical mental health services to middle and low-income [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Never Too Old</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:16:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Seth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How many times have you heard “She’s too old to understand” or “I can’t go out with him, he’s too old”. Ageism is not a new topic, and LGBT seniors regularly face this kind of discrimination in the dating pool, and in society in general. This week, Bilerico Project contributor, Andrew Belonki’s shares his perspective [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sonoma County Settles Gay Elders Lawsuit</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 01:02:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Seth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Friday, July 23, Sonoma County agreed to settle a lawsuit filed on behalf of Clay Greene who was forcibly separated from his partner of 20 years, Harold Scull, after Harold suffered a fall.  Having lost their home and all of their belongings, Harold died three months later without Clay by his side.  Sonoma County will pay Clay and Harold’s estate $600,000 for its role in their ordeal.  The nursing home where the County sent Clay against his will is to pay $53,000.  Thanks to the incredible work of the National Center for Lesbian Rights which represented Clay in the lawsuit, a measure of justice was achieved.  But this egregious case of LGBT elder abuse and discrimination is a chilling example of why LGBT seniors remain reluctant to reach out for the help they need as they age. 
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		<title>Pride 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 00:45:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Seth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[June is Pride month, and all over the world LGBT people are celebrating with their communities. In San Francisco, huge rainbow flags are flying all the way down Market Street, there is a general sense of merriment in the air, and datebooks are filling up with parties and events to celebrate.]]></description>
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		<title>Marcy Adelman and the Purpose Prize</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:17:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Marcy Adelman, co-founder and board member of openhouse speaks on the occasion of her 2009 Purpose Prize Award for her work to bring housing, community and services to LGBT older adults in the place they’ve always called home.]]></description>
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		<title>In Memorium: Warren H. van Eck (1927 &#8211; 2009)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:20:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Seth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Warren was born in Oakland, California, after six brothers and one sister.  His twin brother was born 11:50 PM on December 20th, while Warren was born 12:10 AM on December 21st, which mean that they had different birthdays and different Zodiac signs.  All of his brothers married multiple times; only Warren married just once.  He and his wife had no children, and all his brothers and his sister predeceased him.]]></description>
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		<title>openhouse Spotlight: Marc Tosca</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 01:51:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“I’m old,” Marc Tosca says. “However, considering the alternative, am quite pleased.  Walking upright all these years, having traveled the world, Antarctica the exception, am thus extremely opinionated."

This neat summary, however, doesn't even begin to illuminate his story.

“I'm really a Puerto Rican kid from the South Bronx,” said Marc, when pressed. While I've suffered reversals of fortune, life has indeed been very good to me.”

Marc was born in 1942 in Gurabo, Puerto Rico and lost his left eye at the age of 6 months old. During WWII, he was brought to the mainland for surgery, his family relocating to the Bronx.]]></description>
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		<title>openhouse Spotlight: Nick Frausto</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 01:41:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“My mother liked to fix herself up so she looked just like Elizabeth Taylor,” says Nick Frausto, a recent arrival to San Francisco. “I wasn’t too sure how she’d react when I brought my lover home to meet her – I was pretty nervous.”

Nick, whose Latino heritage made coming out doubly hard for him, had brought his lover Raye, whom he’d met in 1978 in West Hollywood, home to meet his mother after dating him for about a year. “Raye took one look at my mother and said ‘Why, you look just like Elizabeth Taylor,’ which did the trick! She made us both sit down and she went into the kitchen to fix Raye a ton of food – even though we’d both already eaten.”]]></description>
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