The 2019 Evolution of Aging With Pride study, which examined the first federally-funded study to address older LGBTQ+ people, found that 15 percent of gay adults 80 years and older are people of color and more than 7 percent of them continue to work because they need to generate income to survive. This month marks the 50th anniversary of PRIDE and as protests around police violence and racial injustice pulse across the country, the nation’s 220,000 LGBTQ+ and same gender loving ( SGL) elders of color (65 and older) continue to face challenges, even as things have improved.Ī 2017 study, for example, found that Black and Latinx LGBTQ+ adults, aged 50 and older, experienced higher rates of poverty, lower income and education, more LGBTQ+-related discrimination and victimization, as well as day-to-day discrimination over the course of their lives, compared to their White counterparts.
