Lynn Faria: New SAGE CEO on LGBTQ+ Aging & Advocacy

Lynn Faria becomes CEO of SAGE, focusing on LGBTQ+ aging, community care, and fighting anti-LGBTQ+ legislation. She emphasizes resilience, storytelling, and addressing the needs of the "queer sandwich generation."

That vision feels specifically immediate amid a ruthless wave of anti-LGBTQ+ strikes at the government and state levels. “In this environment, where the strikes on trans people and our area as a whole are just relentless, it is effective and so meaningful to do the job we do on the ground,” she claimed.

“I’m simply exceptionally humbled and recognized for this possibility,” Faria informed The Supporter in an interview following her appointment. “I have actually been right here at SAGE, working in close partnership with Michael Adams and other members of management for the last one decade, which is about half of his tenure. Prior to that, I had remained in the movement, operating at the Realm State Pride Program during the marital relationship fight and the marital relationship win. I’ve appreciated SAGE for a long period of time, and I’m so surprised by what Michael has constructed.”

Faria’s Vision for SAGE

For Faria, the via line is clear: area, care, and celebrating, also in hard times. “We have actually been via it before, and we’ll survive it again,” she stated. “Commemorating just how far we have actually come and informing our stories is essential to our connectivity and to our capability to endure what’s ahead.”

“SAGE is so vital,” she said. “We are intense advocates. We’re pressing back. We were the very first LGBT organization to take legal action against the federal government when they attempted to freeze federal funding. We additionally require to create those minutes of delight that are such characteristics of our neighborhood. They’re ingredients of our strength. Which durability is important to the resistance we’re up versus now.”

What SAGE can actually bring is assisting our neighborhood browse the obstacles that come with living, that come with life.”

“My parents are boomers in their very early 70s, and they don’t consider themselves seniors. They assume that’s for ‘those other individuals.’ So I believe SAGE can really begin to transform what it suggests to age and what those experiences look like.”

Adams, who is stepping down after an amazing 20-year period, leaves behind a national organization that he assisted transform from a tiny New York nonprofit right into an effective force for LGBTQ+ maturing plan, treatment, and campaigning for.

SAGE’s Dual Mission: Advocacy and Community

That equilibrium has actually long defined SAGE’s dual mission. The organization has taken the federal government to court to defend LGBTQ+ seniors’ civil liberties while additionally producing spaces for area, narration, and connection. Faria sees those dual roles as necessary to making it through the current environment.

Addressing Changing Demographics of LGBTQ+ Aging

As SAGE goes into a brand-new era, Faria is particularly attuned to the changing demographics of LGBTQ+ aging.

As SAGE enters a brand-new era, Faria is particularly attuned to the changing demographics of LGBTQ+ aging. “Historically, SAGE offered individuals 50 and older.

“It’s really such a vital time for our neighborhood to construct on that foundation,” Faria claimed. What SAGE can actually bring is assisting our neighborhood navigate the challenges that come with living, that come with life.”

“SAGE is just so important,” she stated. Faria commonly turns to SAGE’s constituents, the Stonewall generation, for lessons on durability. Having strong area companies like SAGE to offer individuals an area to come with each other, to organize, and that’s important.”

When Lynn Faria was named the next CEO of SAGE, the nation’s oldest and largest organization devoted to boosting the lives of LGBTQ+ older individuals, she described the chance as “deeply personal and humbling.”

Faria’s point of view is shaped not just by her policy experience however by her generation and her identity. “I bring a very different lived experience to the job as a Gen Xer, as a person who’s wedded and nonbinary to a lady,” she stated.

John Casey is elderly editor of The Advocate, writing columns concerning political, social, and topical problems with leading newsmakers of the day. The columns include meetings with Sam Altman, Mark Cuban, Colman Domingo, Jennifer Coolidge, Kelly Ripa and Mark Counselos, Jamie Lee Curtis, Shirley MacLaine, Neil Patrick Harris, Ellen DeGeneres, Bridget Everett, UNITED STATE Reps. Nancy Pelosi, Jamie Raskin, Ro Khanna, Maxwell Frost, Sens. Chris Murphy and John Fetterman, and governmental cupboard members Leon Panetta, John Brennan, and lots of others. John spent thirty years working as a PR specialist on Capitol Hillside, Hollywood, the Nobel Champion UN Intergovernmental Panel on Environment Modification, UN Agent Mike Bloomberg, Nielsen, and as media connections supervisor with 4 of the largest retailers in the united state

The ‘Queer Sandwich Generation’

Faria usually transforms to SAGE’s components, the Stonewall generation, for lessons on strength. Having solid area organizations like SAGE to offer people a location to come together, to arrange, and that’s critical.”

Part of that reinvention, she stated, entails the growing variety of LGBTQ+ people in the “queer sandwich generation,” caring all at once for maturing parents and for chosen relative or peers. “Most of my Gen X peers have children and are connected to their moms and dads, however they’re likewise caring for or have embraced senior citizens from our neighborhood, buddies, neighbors, former flatmates,” she described. “This is something new, and it’s a caregiving model that’s distinctly queer.”

John Casey is elderly editor of The Supporter, writing columns regarding political, social, and topical issues with leading newsmakers of the day. The columns include meetings with Sam Altman, Mark Cuban, Colman Domingo, Jennifer Coolidge, Kelly Ripa and Mark Counselos, Jamie Lee Curtis, Shirley MacLaine, Neil Patrick Harris, Ellen DeGeneres, Bridget Everett, U.S. Reps. Nancy Pelosi, Jamie Raskin, Ro Khanna, Maxwell Frost, Sens. Chris Murphy and John Fetterman, and presidential cupboard participants Leon Panetta, John Brennan, and many others. John invested three decades functioning as a PR specialist on Capitol Hill, Hollywood, the Nobel Champion UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, UN Envoy Mike Bloomberg, Nielsen, and as media connections supervisor with four of the largest merchants in the united state