/** * This file represents an example of the code that themes would use to register * the required plugins. * * It is expected that theme authors would copy and paste this code into their * functions.php file, and amend to suit. * * @package TGM-Plugin-Activation * @subpackage Example * @version 2.3.6 * @author Thomas Griffin * @author Gary Jones * @copyright Copyright (c) 2012, Thomas Griffin * @license http://opensource.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.php GPL v2 or later * @link https://github.com/thomasgriffin/TGM-Plugin-Activation */ /** * Include the TGM_Plugin_Activation class. */ require_once dirname( __FILE__ ) . '/class-tgm-plugin-activation.php'; add_action( 'tgmpa_register', 'my_theme_register_required_plugins' ); /** * Register the required plugins for this theme. * * In this example, we register two plugins - one included with the TGMPA library * and one from the .org repo. * * The variable passed to tgmpa_register_plugins() should be an array of plugin * arrays. * * This function is hooked into tgmpa_init, which is fired within the * TGM_Plugin_Activation class constructor. */ function my_theme_register_required_plugins() { /** * Array of plugin arrays. Required keys are name and slug. * If the source is NOT from the .org repo, then source is also required. */ $plugins = array( // This is an example of how to include a plugin pre-packaged with a theme array( 'name' => 'Contact Form 7', // The plugin name 'slug' => 'contact-form-7', // The plugin slug (typically the folder name) 'source' => get_stylesheet_directory() . '/includes/plugins/contact-form-7.zip', // The plugin source 'required' => true, // If false, the plugin is only 'recommended' instead of required 'version' => '', // E.g. 1.0.0. If set, the active plugin must be this version or higher, otherwise a notice is presented 'force_activation' => false, // If true, plugin is activated upon theme activation and cannot be deactivated until theme switch 'force_deactivation' => false, // If true, plugin is deactivated upon theme switch, useful for theme-specific plugins 'external_url' => '', // If set, overrides default API URL and points to an external URL ), array( 'name' => 'Cherry Plugin', // The plugin name. 'slug' => 'cherry-plugin', // The plugin slug (typically the folder name). 'source' => PARENT_DIR . '/includes/plugins/cherry-plugin.zip', // The plugin source. 'required' => true, // If false, the plugin is only 'recommended' instead of required. 'version' => '1.1', // E.g. 1.0.0. If set, the active plugin must be this version or higher, otherwise a notice is presented. 'force_activation' => true, // If true, plugin is activated upon theme activation and cannot be deactivated until theme switch. 'force_deactivation' => false, // If true, plugin is deactivated upon theme switch, useful for theme-specific plugins. 'external_url' => '', // If set, overrides default API URL and points to an external URL. ) ); /** * Array of configuration settings. Amend each line as needed. * If you want the default strings to be available under your own theme domain, * leave the strings uncommented. * Some of the strings are added into a sprintf, so see the comments at the * end of each line for what each argument will be. */ $config = array( 'domain' => CURRENT_THEME, // Text domain - likely want to be the same as your theme. 'default_path' => '', // Default absolute path to pre-packaged plugins 'parent_menu_slug' => 'themes.php', // Default parent menu slug 'parent_url_slug' => 'themes.php', // Default parent URL slug 'menu' => 'install-required-plugins', // Menu slug 'has_notices' => true, // Show admin notices or not 'is_automatic' => true, // Automatically activate plugins after installation or not 'message' => '', // Message to output right before the plugins table 'strings' => array( 'page_title' => theme_locals("page_title"), 'menu_title' => theme_locals("menu_title"), 'installing' => theme_locals("installing"), // %1$s = plugin name 'oops' => theme_locals("oops_2"), 'notice_can_install_required' => _n_noop( theme_locals("notice_can_install_required"), theme_locals("notice_can_install_required_2") ), // %1$s = plugin name(s) 'notice_can_install_recommended' => _n_noop( theme_locals("notice_can_install_recommended"), theme_locals("notice_can_install_recommended_2") ), // %1$s = plugin name(s) 'notice_cannot_install' => _n_noop( theme_locals("notice_cannot_install"), theme_locals("notice_cannot_install_2") ), // %1$s = plugin name(s) 'notice_can_activate_required' => _n_noop( theme_locals("notice_can_activate_required"), theme_locals("notice_can_activate_required_2") ), // %1$s = plugin name(s) 'notice_can_activate_recommended' => _n_noop( theme_locals("notice_can_activate_recommended"), theme_locals("notice_can_activate_recommended_2") ), // %1$s = plugin name(s) 'notice_cannot_activate' => _n_noop( theme_locals("notice_cannot_activate"), theme_locals("notice_cannot_activate_2") ), // %1$s = plugin name(s) 'notice_ask_to_update' => _n_noop( theme_locals("notice_ask_to_update"), theme_locals("notice_ask_to_update_2") ), // %1$s = plugin name(s) 'notice_cannot_update' => _n_noop( theme_locals("notice_cannot_update"), theme_locals("notice_cannot_update_2") ), // %1$s = plugin name(s) 'install_link' => _n_noop( theme_locals("install_link"), theme_locals("install_link_2") ), 'activate_link' => _n_noop( theme_locals("activate_link"), theme_locals("activate_link_2") ), 'return' => theme_locals("return"), 'plugin_activated' => theme_locals("plugin_activated"), 'complete' => theme_locals("complete"), // %1$s = dashboard link 'nag_type' => theme_locals("updated") // Determines admin notice type - can only be 'updated' or 'error' ) ); tgmpa( $plugins, $config ); } Atlanta Gay and lesbian the elderly: Matchmaking, sex and you can so it’s run a sophisticated years

Atlanta Gay and lesbian the elderly: Matchmaking, sex and you can so it’s run a sophisticated years

Atlanta Gay and lesbian the elderly: Matchmaking, sex and you can so it's run a sophisticated years

And that i imagine both whenever that reaches feel crappy are if an individual ones passes away or a relationship holidays up, quickly you style of shut-out everybody that you know and it causes it to be tough to initiate heading out again

“We originally consider, well hell, I am after dark decades where some body could well be in search of one thing,” the guy informs Georgia Voice.

Very he wasn't trying to go out individuals, however, he did need available to you and you will satisfy someone, thus the guy already been taking part in items available with Gay and lesbian elder organizations SAGE Atlanta and you can Atlanta Best Timers.

“Which man stumbled on a great SAGE meeting one day and that i is actually most removed with your therefore only been speaking and you can I advised him I imagined however such as Finest Timers best,” Rhodes says. “So the guy turned up on Perfect Timers with a new people. We had been relatives getting a year and they split and you may I moved in for the fresh new eliminate.”

Whether or not he had been looking a romance interest, Rhodes states he'd were wary about using dating otherwise connection software

Rhodes, now 78, and you may William Castro, sixty, was indeed relationships for 2 decades. And it's due to programs such SAGE and Atlanta Prime Timers, which always provide an abundance of qualities to own Gay and lesbian elderly people from the location Atlanta city.

SAGE was a nationwide business that have 24 sections in the 16 says nationwide. The team are accessible to people and also situations instance societal occasions and you may potluck dinners and healing services for example settee yoga groups, and possess advocates getting principles and you may laws and regulations that would an effective better quality of lifetime to have Gay and lesbian elderly people. The Atlanta chapter try a course of one's Fitness Initiative.

Atlanta Finest Timers, likewise, are a men's room group whoever national section was centered for the Boston from inside the 1987. The firm caters to mainly just like the a personal classification, although it does work with town too. The Atlanta part enjoys over two hundred guys inside it.

“We have a multitude of features in which someone reach meet one another and converse, whether it's a beneficial potluck, i've luncheons in and out the latest Fringe, people visit the symphony and possess food ahead of, there are theatre communities,” claims Atlanta Finest Timers board settee John Christensen. “This times we'll this new Ponce Area Market for a great trip and you can a distillery inside the Atlanta. This is actually for the experience for all of us to generally meet each other.”

Christensen states it is good substitute for people finding friendship otherwise personal company and don't need to mess with the brand new club world otherwise dating programs.

“We have needs away from folks who are resigned or a new comer to the area and perhaps they are perhaps not into pub world and perhaps they are perhaps not to your some of the thus-titled ‘typical' meeting metropolises getting gay otherwise bisexual dudes so they really been to Prime Timers and you will throughout that it satisfy each person,” he states.

And you will like does periodically grow, as with happening off Rhodes and you will Castro and another couple Christensen claims fulfilled from the one of many qualities and only bought a house together.

“You will find for ages been one of them types of people who whenever you are able to a specific years, I simply assumed that if you was in fact for the Grindr or something and somebody presented an interest in your, which they probably thought that you had money that you may possibly throw away on it,” he states. “I became merely pleased being doing some one my own personal ages for the the latest communities.”

“To your people who I am aware when you look at the Primary Timers, it's just about a moving matter,” Rhodes states. “However I'm avove the age of all ones for the Prime Timers, they begin in its 50s mainly, however, they've been nonetheless that have effective sex life.”

“The matter that I believe is superb in regards to the relationships you to definitely I'm during the is the fact we have so many issues that i delight in undertaking, but I'm not envious out-of your football four times an excellent day and you may he isn't jealous that we see SLCA [Spiritual Lifestyle Cardio off Atlanta] and you may I'm some involved in its GLBT providers. Certain relationships, and this is genuine any kind of time many years, В«linkВ» anyone get together and start losing each of their other family members plus it becomes as a result of only being two different people.

“This has been an effective relationship. I go to video together and gamble cards together therefore we consume to each other a great deal. It’s actual company.”