Jerry Mallicoat, 58, has fought for LGBTQ rights in Ohio his entire adult life. Now, he’s helping LGBTQ elders lead active and fulfilled lives. Pride50
, which provides advocacy, educational resources, support and referral services to the elder lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer community.Mallicoat said caring for his own aging parents made him confront the fact that without children, he’d have no one to take care of him at the end of his life. He realized this was a problem for many LGBTQ elders who never had children.
“But it’s even more difficult for older LGBTQ people, because there is still stigma and discrimination, misunderstanding and fear, and because of the patchwork of legal rights we’ve had over the years,” he said. He was inspired to come out of the closet after his idol, gay rights activist Harvey Milk, was assassinated in 1978. Mallicoat, who was a student at Ohio State University at the time, joined the university’s gay alliance and never looked back.Public Health - Dayton & Montgomery County
In 2013, Mallicoat, who lives in Dayton, started Rainbow Elder Care with a few members from his local church.“We have a beautiful, beautiful tapestry of humanity in the LGBTQ community,” Mallicoat said. “We have people from all communities, and for me, it’s important that we appreciate and recognize the contributions that all of those people have made on the journey to get us to where they are, and we have so much to thank them for and so much to learn from them.
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