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JB Stark

JB Stark

JB Stark is Chief Development and Communications Officer at SAGE, the national advocacy organization for LGBTQ+ elders, and a featured guest on the Elton John Impact Awards podcast.

Jun 1, 2026

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LGBTQ older
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people, first of all, are a growing population.
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There's no way to be totally precise about the number of people that we're talking about, but we estimate that there will be 7 million LGBTQ people who are at the age of 50 or older by the year 2030.
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So we're talking about a big group of people.
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Our folks experience a higher risk of social isolation of discrimination, of the lack of community support.
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We are five times as likely to be single, two times less likely to have children, and over a third of our people are living at or below the
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want to support.
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This is the community who survived the AIDS crisis.

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