Barcelona hails success of its senior gayification programme
Barcelona is touting the success of its positive senior gayification plan: LGTBI inclusion in care homes is winning over residents, amid laughter and criticism.
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Barcelona touts its positive senior 'gayification' plan
Barcelona has announced that its 'positive senior gayification' programme — a measure to bring the LGTBI perspective into care homes and senior centres — has been a success. The announcement opens with a statement of intent: not stopping at LGTBI education in schools, but reaching older people too.
Reactions have been anything but lukewarm. Some see the plan as an ideological whim, while others stress that it meets a real need of a community that has lived decades in silence. The visible ageing of LGTBI people, with their late coming-outs, is an increasingly present topic in debates about care.
A plan so older people can stop lying
The programme obliges no one, but it has raised suspicions. The most common criticism is that public effort should go to other fronts. The simplest answer is another question: what is the cost of an 80-year-old having to introduce their partner as a nephew? The city council considers the plan a success and touts its results. The joke, however, keeps gaining ground in public conversation.
The curious thing is that the plan, at heart, asks for very little: that an older man, after a lifetime of lies, can finally grow old without hiding. Whether that is seen as a success or a threat says more about the person opining than about the plan itself.
Barcelona has announced that its 'positive senior gayification' programme — a measure to bring the LGTBI perspective into care homes and senior centres — has been a success. The announcement opens with a statement of intent: not stopping at LGTBI education in schools, but reaching older people too.
Reactions have been anything but lukewarm. Some see the plan as an ideological whim, while others stress that it meets a real need of a community that has lived decades in silence. The visible ageing of LGTBI people, with their late coming-outs, is an increasingly present topic in debates about care.
A plan so older people can stop lying
The programme obliges no one, but it has raised suspicions. The most common criticism is that public effort should go to other fronts. The simplest answer is another question: what is the cost of an 80-year-old having to introduce their partner as a nephew? The city council considers the plan a success and touts its results. The joke, however, keeps gaining ground in public conversation.
The curious thing is that the plan, at heart, asks for very little: that an older man, after a lifetime of lies, can finally grow old without hiding. Whether that is seen as a success or a threat says more about the person opining than about the plan itself.
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