Gay Retirement - Palms of Manasota

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• FLORIDA'S MOST FAMO GAYBORHOOD VTS HOM FOR GAY SENRS

FLORIDA'S MOST FAMO GAYBORHOOD VTS HOM FOR GAY SENRS

About UsWe are The Palms of Manasota, Ameri's first Gay, Lbian, and Gay-Friendly Retirement Communy. Petersburg and Sarasota, both of which have thrivg gay muni and are only mut away! Although began as a gay and lbian retirement muny, now 15 of the 21 hom are click on the Hom for Sale lk at top of Home Page to terme if there are currently any hom for sale.

Many Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr (LGBT) elrs report ser ncerns about agg and retirement, acrdg to the nonprof group Servic & Advocy for GLBT Elrs (SAGE).

For example, same-sex partners have been nied the opportuny to share the same room, staff members who personally object to homosexualy have treated LGBT elrs sensively, and fanc and benefs normally given to heterosexual partners have been whheld om survivg same-sex partners. Careee Cove Boone, North Carola, is a gay and lbian rintial muny a mounta settg. Birds of a Feather is a gated gay and lbian muny a ral, mountao area near Pes, New Mexi, about a half hour east of Santa Fe.

“The Herbs”, as they are known to their iends, bought an apartment two s ago near the beach Hollywood, which ss between Miami and Wilton Manors, a cy wh one of the largt gay populatns the eastern Uned Stat. “If at some pot we n’t ambulate and need assistance, we will hire home re servic to e to , ” add Horowz, 77, who ed to own an terr sign bs New Florida is a mag for retire - gay and straight - wh s top-rated beach, endls entertament choic and diverse populatn. Luxury apartment plex, assisted-livg facili and nursg hom generally wele pk The Herbs are nfint that they will never have to move to a retirement home, many gay senrs are ls fancially secure, wh high poverty rat among a muny that has faced s of discrimatn.

Builrs are preparg to break ground on Florida’s first affordable hog project for elrly LGBT+ rints, one of several specialist hom emergg natnwi, om Los Angel to Chigo, wh the backg of gay muny notn that the LGBT+ populatn the Uned Stat is wealthy and n afford to retire to beachont ndos or facili wh farm-to-table cuise is a myth, experts said. “We’ve noticed a growg number of gay senrs who are stgglg fancially, and are lookg for affordable hog solutns, ” said Bce Williams, a ordator at The Pri Center, which is behd the hog project Wilton populatn of the Uned Stat is ageg.

UNIQUEWilton Manors, wh about 12, 000 rints, is Florida’s most famo gayborhood. It elected s first openly gay official 1988 and the Uned Stat’ send gay-majory lol ernment 2000, cludg the mayor and vice Pri Center, which is 25 years old, already ns one of the untry’s largt LGBT+ senrs health and social servic programs, offerg everythg om bgo to unselg for hundreds of elrly was only natural that Florida’s first LGBT+ affordable hog project should be built Wilton Manors, said Kristofer Fegenbh, The Pri Center’s chief operatns Rinc - a four-storey apartment buildg - will have 48 uns, 34 of which are signed for senrs livg wh disabili, he said.

DISCRIMINATIONBarrg gay-iendly bubbl like Wilton Manors and San Francis, LGBT+ elrs routely face discrimatn when lookg for a home, acrdg to SAGE, the untry’s largt advocy group for elrly gay elrs are twice as likely to be sgle and live alone, and four tim ls likely to have children, which creas fancial stra, said Kelly Kent, director of SAGE’s Natnal Hog Iniative. ”About ten LGBT+ muny centers are partnerg wh velopers natnwi to build gay-iendly affordable hog projects, wh a dozen others unr nsiratn, he said, often part-fund by Low-Ine Hog Tax has llaborated wh a non-prof and a veloper to build two affordable hog projects the New York area totalg 230 group also tras mastream retirement muni and service provirs to be more sensive to gay succs of six-year-old Emerald Ele Senr Home Care - which offers servic rangg om bathg to okg and pet re to Wilton Manors rints - shows that the market is growg for bs terg to olr gay people.