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Date: April 30, 2013
Time: 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
5:30 – 6:00 PM: Registration and Reception; 6:00 – 7:30 PM: Film showing and discussion (for approximately 20 minutes)
Location: The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, New York, NY 10029
The New York Academy of Medicine’s Section on Social Work invites you to its Annual Film Night to view Gen Silent
Gen Silent is the critically-acclaimed documentary from filmmaker Stu Maddux that asks six LGBT seniors if they will hide their friends, their spouses--their entire lives--in order to survive in the care system. Their surprising decisions are captured through intimate access to their day-to-day lives over the course of a year. It puts a face on what experts in the film call an epidemic: gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender older people so afraid of discrimination by caregivers or bullying by other seniors that many simply go back into the closet.
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.
Following the film screening, Rebecca Heisler will facilitate a discussion with the audience. She currently serves as the program coordinator at The SAGE Center, the country’s first municipally funded center for LGBT older adults. Ms. Heisler is well acquainted with film since her past work at a Boston Area Elder Service organization is featured in the film.
This event is free, thanks to the generosity of an anonymous donor and the co-sponsoring organizations, but registration is required.
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Cost: Free, but advance registration is required
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