LGBT program for Longmont seniors gets $100,000 grant

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http://www.timescall.com/features/health/ci_18173239?source=most_emailed

LONGMONT -- Two years after divorcing his wife of nearly 25 years, Jack Davis flew alone in 1982 from Denver to Dallas to spend Thanksgiving with his mother and tell her that he was gay.
Even when he could choose the time and the place, the uncertainty of how she would respond forced him to write her a letter instead.

At 79, the single Longmont resident enjoys good health, lives in a tidy mobile home, delivers auto parts full time, and goes out with friends for Scotch and dinner on occasion.

But Davis realizes that some of his closeted gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered peers may not get to choose when, where, how and to whom they come out should failing health force them into a care-giving setting.

Earlier this month, Project Visibility -- a cultural competency training program aimed at administrators and staff of nursing homes, assisted-living residences, home care agencies and other senior service providers -- landed a $100,000 grant from The Theodore and Chandos Rice Charitable Foundation to continue developing the award-winning program launched in 2004 to benefit LGBT elders.

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