{"id":4006,"date":"2025-04-28T22:32:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T03:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chapters.theprimetimersww.com\/neworleans\/?page_id=4006"},"modified":"2026-08-24T17:56:51","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T22:56:51","slug":"gnopt-in-the-news","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/chapters.theprimetimersww.com\/neworleans\/gnopt-in-the-news\/","title":{"rendered":"GNOPT in the News"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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McDougall, G. J.\u00a0\u00a0(2026, January 2).<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0The Cost of Loneliness Among Gay Elders<\/a><\/em><\/span>. <\/em><\/span>\u00a0Psychology Today.<\/em> \u00a0Psychologytoday.com. Read 1,501 times.<\/span><\/h4>

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McDougall, G. J.\u00a0\u00a0(2025, October 12).<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Loneliness, LGBTQ Elders, and the Power of Community<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0Juried presentation for the International Prime Timers Convention, Omaha, Nebraska.<\/span><\/h4>

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McDougall, G. J.\u00a0\u00a0(2025, May 17).<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Loneliness, LGBTQ Elders, and the Power of Community<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0Juried presentation for the New Orleans Advocates for Gay and Lesbian Elders NOAGE Wellness Symposium, Ochsner Center for Academic Excellence, Jefferson, LA.<\/span><\/h4><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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In 2025 our GNOPT Chapter President Graham was interviewed by two of our local LGBTQ media outlets.<\/em><\/span><\/h2>
January 20, 2025<\/span><\/strong>, Graham participated in an hour long Zoom session with Jim Meadows, MSW.\u00a0\u00a0Jim is the founding Executive Director of NO AGE.\u00a0\u00a0This organization recently celebrated their tenth anniversary and provides services and advocacy for LGBTQ+ older adults in the New Orleans metro area. Jim writes a column for Ambush and our interview was published in a recent issue of the magazine, both print edition and the on-line version.\u00a0\u00a0 https:\/\/www.ambushmag.com\/greater-new-orleans-primetimers\/<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/h5>

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February 18, 2025<\/span><\/strong>, Graham was an invited guest (<\/span>from 9-10am) <\/span>on the WHIV.FM<\/a>\u00a0community radio show entitled (Parents and Friends of Lesbian and Gays-PFLAG New Orleans – Expanding the Rainbow<\/i>\u00a0with hosts Sally Jackson and Josh Carcabasis.\u00a0\u00a0This was an hour-long interview.\u00a0\u00a0https:\/\/whivfm.org\/about<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/h5>
Note: The radio station 102.3 FM WHIV-LP is a program of The New Orleans Society for Infectious Disease Awareness (NOSIDA), which was established in 2009 by local activist and infectious diseases physician Dr. Mark Alain Dery. NOSIDA’s focus is to raise awareness about HIV and other infectious diseases through music. NOSIDA received its non-profit status in 2010.\u00a0\u00a0As one of the only community radio stations dedicated to human rights and social justice, WHIV-FM uplifts marginalized voices and creates waves of change both locally and nationally.<\/span><\/em><\/h6>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

McDougall, G. J.\u00a0\u00a0(2026, January 2).\u00a0\u00a0The Cost of Loneliness Among Gay Elders. \u00a0Psychology Today. \u00a0Psychologytoday.com. Read 1,501 times. \u00a0 McDougall, G. J.\u00a0\u00a0(2025, October 12).\u00a0\u00a0Loneliness, LGBTQ Elders, and the Power of Community.\u00a0\u00a0Juried presentation for the International Prime… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4006","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapters.theprimetimersww.com\/neworleans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapters.theprimetimersww.com\/neworleans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapters.theprimetimersww.com\/neworleans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapters.theprimetimersww.com\/neworleans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapters.theprimetimersww.com\/neworleans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4006"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/chapters.theprimetimersww.com\/neworleans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4690,"href":"https:\/\/chapters.theprimetimersww.com\/neworleans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4006\/revisions\/4690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapters.theprimetimersww.com\/neworleans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}