is a muny for olr gay men and the men who love them.
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SENR GAY MEN GATHERG FOR SOCIAL AND PERSONAL CONNECTN
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But this lotn has a unique flavor: Nearly everyone here is gay, lbian, or transgenr. Bee, at that time I hired on, they uld have fired me for beg gay.
And ’s jt amazg to me that at my age, that I have a healthy, long-lastg relatnship.Karabaic [narratn]: But Rose is sred wh the recent uptick vlence agast the LGBTQ+ muny.Rose: I live fear that somebody, well, we’ve seen [people] go to the gay bars and shoot them up, you know? So if somebody asks, ‘When did you know you were gay?’ And I said age 3.Taylor: Both my parents were a ltle b olr, and so they tend to do thgs jt a ltle b differently, you know?
Jo me and other like-md senr gay men for an -person meetup to share and nnect a meangful way, as we emerge (sensibly) om Covid isolatn. We n create an open space to fd and epen personal relatnships, whether as iends, or more, and to grow our sense of muny—*beyond* * seniors gay *
And the gay newspaper down there is the Bay Area Reporter. To have to go om that and — not have to read obuari for so many people.Karabaic [narratn]: But Taylor se that thgs have been backslidg.Taylor: Jt alg wh this backlash of agast gay people recently. It’s jt sort of weird, and prottg drag showsWe gaed so much, the past s, people unrstandg who gay people are and people beg more fortable.
And now ’s kd of turng back.We were aware of of beg gay and beg different, but aga, that was not somethg that was really talked about among other people. And nowadays ’s somethg that you n talk about openly wh other people and not beg embarrassed about , or not have a fear of beg rejected or beg discrimated agast.The gay people that are out now have been out for a long time and they’re not gog to be gog back .
And so there’s gog to have to be some reckong wh the people who don’t want to see gay people. As gay, lbian, bisexual, and transgenr dividuals move to their retirement years, the mand for LGBTQ retirement muni ntu to expand.