Graying gays find helping hands As population ages, service ...

Once a week, Luis Oropeza and Jimmy Ho get together and discuss theater, art, social work -- their mutual careers -- and a host of other topics. Each brings his own experience to the conversation: Oropeza has introduced Ho to Bay Area theater, and Ho shows him aspects of Chinese and Asian culture. Both men also are gay and enjoy analyzing and sharing their impressions of gay culture. The ease of their lunchtime conversations, often in the Fillmore district near Oropeza's Cathedral Hill apartment, belies their vast difference in age: Oropeza is 63 years old; Ho is 26. Their weekly meetings are part of one program among several cropping up across the country to address the needs of aging lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people among the first generation to meet wide acceptance when they declared their sexual orientation.

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