It was the above picture that grabbed me more than the article itself. It shows a Bruce Steiner, 76, feeding his partner, Jim Anthony, 71, who has Alzheimer’s disease for more than a decade and can no longer feed himself or speak.
On one hand, you see a gay man who sticks by his man regardless of what happens. And on the other, you come face to face with the prospect of aging and what it would mean to gays and lesbians; or for that matter, any single straight person.
I think this is an issue that we in Singapore have to start thinking about very soon. Aging and being gay. Where can we find our support when we need it and who can we turn to? If old straight people are finding it hard to live in a youth-obsessed Singapore, what more gays and lesbians.
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