LGBTQ older adults are twice as likely as their heterosexual counterparts to grow old single and living alone, according to SAGE, an advocacy organization for LGBTQ elders.
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Gene Dinah, left, and his husband, Robert Malsberry.
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Robert Malsberry with Cleo, the cat he shared with Gene Dinah.
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Robert Malsberry when he was an Air Force lieutenant.
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Photographs of Gene Dinah and his husband, Robert Malsberry, throughout the years.
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Andrea Montanez said it's "scary to be an elder as a transgender person."
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Last Christmas, a SAGE volunteer helped Gene Dinah put up his Christmas tree.