"Two, four, six, eight–how do you know your grandma’s straight?!" Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? OutSmart listens to the voices of some of the older members of the gay community in this issue devoted to "the graying of the rainbow."

March 2001

FEATURES
Aging in the Gay Community

• REBELS & SURVIVORS The life stories from four of our lesbian "ancestors." by Pokey Anderson
  
• AGING WELL WITH HAL KOODEN Talking with the author of Golden Men: The Power of Gay Midlife. by Tim Brookover
  
• COMMUNITY GROUPS FOR OLDER GAYS PrimeTimers, LOAF, O.L.O.C., For Mature Audiences Only.
  
• THE GRAYING OF THE RAINBOW THINKING ABOUT GLBT AGING ISSUES.(ONLY AVAILABLE ON THE WEB!) by Urvashi Vaid
  
• THE PAUSE THAT REFRESHES-NOT! Menopause for two, and other humorous factors of gay aging by D.L. Murphy
  
• VILLAGE ELDERS A book of portraits of our older gay family members review by Marcia Chamberlain
• WORKOUT 50+? Life is more than just a box of Raisin Bran. by John-Aaron
  

NEWS & COMMENT

• LETTERS
  
• IN AND OUT NEWS BRIEFS Janine Brunjes; national HIV conference comes to town; Unhinged Productions’ new theater; the Progressive Dinner; the Unity Banquet; the Texas Lesbians Conference, and more...
  
• LEFTOUT/ Daryl Moore We’ve come a long way since the 1985 referendum fiasco.
• OUTRIGHT/ Dale Carpenter Keeping a close watch on W.
  

OUT & ABOUT

• MOVIES/ Blase DiStefano Talking with Greg Berlanti, the 29-year-old director of The Broken Hearts Club.
• MOVIES/ John W. Stiles Boy’s Life 3, Before Night Falls, Nico and Dani.
• GROOVEOUT/ Chris Sill Boy George mixes it up.
• ART/ Anne H. Roberts A gay couple are the featured artists at the Bayou City Arts Fest.
• DINEOUT/ E.J. Arnell Healthy pleasures at Miss Saigon.
  
• CALENDAR Oscars at River Oaks Theatre, women’s films at the Museum of Fine Arts, and much more...
  
• SIGNOUT/ Lilly Roddy