An Austin-based organization is working to make sure elderly people in the LGBTQIA+ community are not overlooked.
"To me, it was just so weird just to hear myself just finally say so. I came out to me," said 90-year-old Richard Rollin Gartner.
Gartner is a performer, a family guy and a gay man. The 90-year-old spent his time coming into his sexuality as a performer across the Lone Star State, spending more than three decades on stages all over, finding the strength to begin to accept who he is. "I woke up one day and was just lying in bed, and I said, 'You know, I don't have a peer group.' And it's because my life had been very full of younger people all the time," said Gartner.
"According to studies, the isolation among LGBTQ plus seniors is twice more intense," said Dr. Alarcon.
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