When I think of mentors, I picture wise, senior colleagues providing sage career advice.
"There are two purposes we wanted to achieve," Mr. Adams says, "to increase the visibility of L.G.B.T. aging issues and to make L.G.B.T. seniors aware of Sage's services".
David Burke, the director of college counseling at Pembroke Hill School in Kansas City, Mo., offered this sage advice for seniors who were accepted during early admissions season: First of all, congratulate yourself on a job well done.
Ty is an activist in Harlem who works with SAGE (an LGBT seniors advocacy group) is in a committed relationship and hopes that his boyfriend will proprose once New York legalizes gay marriage.
Sage said that three senior editors and 27 additional associate editors, all "with expertise and prestige in the field" had been appointed to run the peer review process for the journal following the inquiry findings and Nayfeh's departure.
Bill Clinton and his senior staff helped make the Red Sage, a Southwestern-accented restaurant near the White House, one of Washington's hottest restaurants by including it in their capital restaurant rotation.
The campaign coincides with the 30th anniversary of Sage, which was formerly called Senior Action in a Gay Environment.
The nonprofit SAGE, which currently serves LGBT seniors in offices in Midtown Manhattan and Harlem, will open centers in Brooklyn, Staten Island and The Bronx.
As a start, he and other members of the USA Cricket Association, a national amateur group, have set up an informal league for teenagers at Russell Sage and five other junior and senior high schools in Community School District 28 in central Queens.
When Pete Rouse, a longtime Capitol Hill sage who now is one of Obama's three senior advisers, put on some weight, Obama intervened, Rouse told me.
