In Focus, In Words: LGBTQ Seniors Share Their Journeys Through Photos & Autobiographical Stories
Stephen Dolainski
Seven senior GAB 2 participants shared the spotlight with senior photographers at the Los Angeles LGBT Center’s In Focus, In Words event on January 9, 2024. The event supported one of the Center’s missions: to bring the LGBTQ community together by connecting and sharing their life experiences.
After Stephen Dolainski completed the GAB training in 2022, he contacted the Center to propose the GAB workshop. The Center’s Senior Services Department sponsored four GAB workshops in 2023, with more to come in 2024.
“The individual stories of LGBTQ seniors are an essential component of the fabric of LGBTQ history,” says Stephen. “GAB is the perfect vehicle to preserve these eyewitness stories so we can them pass on to subsequent generations of queer people if we are to preserve, protect, and provide a context of our struggle to achieve basic human rights.”