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OUT IN THE CITY OCTOBER 2011
THE TEAM Editor
DAVID HUDSON
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Over recent months we’ve been running a campaign to highlight the work undertaken by Age UK’s Opening Doors service – a unique service that provides specific help to the older LGBT community in London. Age UK has been aware of the specific needs that elderly gays face – many of which have, until recently, gone unnoticed or ignored. A new report commissioned by equal rights charity Stonewall has now further explored the issues faced by older generations of the LGBT community. It makes for sobering and sometimes depressing reading. Among its findings were that gay and bisexual men over the age of 55 were almost three times more likely to be single than heterosexual men in the same age bracket (40% compared to 15%); LGBT people were more likely to live alone (41% compared to 21% of heterosexual people); and, unsurprisingly, were far less likely to have children. They tended to drink more alcohol and were more likely to have suffered from depression or anxiety (gay men twice as likely as heterosexual men). Half of the LGBT people questioned expressed worries about their mental health, and even when they were aware of the problems they faced, most didn’t feel confident that social care and support services would be able to help them or treat them appropriately. Consequently, many still felt uncomfortable at the thought of ‘outing’ themselves to hospital staff, housing providers or carers. I find this report very worrying, and, from a personal point of view, actually rather scary. None of us like to dwell upon getting older. We may fight the effects of ageing as hard as possible, but we will eventually all be forced to confront that old adage, “Time waits for no man”.
Sometimes, people feel isolated because they physically can’t get out and about; but too often, it’s because they feel excluded or unwelcome. Ageism is rampant. Not just on the gay scene, but across society. However, given the particular problems and hardships that older LGBT face, it is time that we – as a community – started to take ownership of these problems. Sadly, they’re issues that, sooner or later, many of us will have to tackle.
hudson@outmag.co.uk
CONTENTS 16
06 LETTERS Send your
correspondence to editorial@outmag.
co.uk
08 MY LONDON Tattooist Henry Hate gives us his capital highlights
10 SHOPPING The return of the Brutus Trim-Fit compilation and Marc Jacob’s new ‘Bang Bang’
12 MANNERS MAKETH…
…The gay man! We interview etiquette guru Steven Petrow
16 JOHN
BARROWMAN We catch up with the Torchwood star to talk about his diverse acting and recording career
23 DIARY October’s cultural highlights and arts listings
12 42 26 MUSIC
Feist, Thomas Dolby, Erasure and Darren Hayes reviewed
28 FILM We Need To Talk About Kevin and Don’t Be Afraid Of The Dark reviewed, plus an interview with Q. Allan Brocka about Eating Out: Drama Camp...
34 THEATRE Top Girls reviewed and theatre news
36 FOOD Satsuma reviewed
39 OUT THERE The Wig Party and and other scene highlights for October, plus
coverage of UK Black Pride, XXL’s 11th birthday and Soho Pink Sunday
54 OUTREACH This year’s No To Hate Crime vigil, and
78 PROPERTY Beautiful armchairs and other products for your home
84 TRAVEL The wonders of Iceland and Postcard from Gran Canaria
91 BODY AND SOUL
Agony uncle, grooming, Living Well and Body Talk
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the Opening Doors service for older LGBT people
60 OUT NEWS All the gay news from home and abroad, plus NAT on the rules around gay men and blood donation
70 FAMILY This year’s
Alternative Families Show, London
Sperm Bank and the British Surrogacy Agency
Hudson’s Letter
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