We all need a little help from our friends — at any age.

This is the inciting incident of Silver Foxes, a comedy being developed by Golden Girls writers Stan Zimmerman and James Berg. The series — recently picked up by Super Deluxe, a division of Turner Broadcasting — begins with a group of gay men who rescue their friend from a homophobic senior living facility, before whisking him back to their home in Palm Springs, Calif.

The premise for the pilot is inspired by real-life tragedy depicted in Gen Silent, a 2010 documentary about LGBT seniors. These folks, after battling a lifetime of discrimination, are forced back into the closet in order to survive in America’s health care system.

Instantly, Zimmerman and Berg realized this was a topic worth writing about.

“As gay people, we realized how important friends are to becoming our family,” Berg said. “And the fact that after years and years of fighting and working to come out and be accepted — at an advanced age, we would have to go back in the closet? [It] was just a shocking revelation to us.”

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