Gen Silent explores what experts in the film call an epidemic: lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT) seniors so afraid of discrimination (or worse) in health care that many go back into the closet. Gen Silent covers how oppression in the years before Stonewall (1969) now leaves many elders afraid and dangerously isolated. The film shows the wide range in quality of paid caregivers, from those who are specifically trained to make LGBT seniors feel safe, to the other end of the spectrum, where LGBT elders face discrimination, neglect, or abuse.

Filmmaker Stu Maddux will be available after the film to lead a discussion about its production.

The free viewing of this documentary is brought to you by OutReach Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Community Center through the generous support of New Harvest Foundation, The Levy Family Foundation, Donald Lamb, and Bill Wartmann. OutReach has served as Madison and south-central Wisconsin's LGBT Community Center since 1973. OutReach's mission to promote equality and quality of life for LGBT people. Their vision is "to create a community where the presence and contributions of LGBT people are celebrated, where intolerance is challenged and defeated, where justice prevails, and where civil rights of all people are valued and respected."

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