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AUSTRALIA'S first gay and lbian retirement village is beg built on Geelong's doorstep at Ballan Victoria.

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Peter Dickson’s dream of tablishg Atralia’s first LGBT (lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr) rintial village untry Victoria me om a eply personal motivatn. The village is a short stroll om the centre of Ballan, a small town about an hour out of Melbourne between Ballarat and Geelong, and jt 20 mut’ drive om the popular gay statns of Daylford and Bacch Marsh. It is part of a growg ternatnal trend of gay people wantg to fd a iendly muny which to grow old – other LGBT retirement hom have recently opened overseas, cludg Triangle Square LA and Regnbågen block Stockholm.

A new LGBT aged re centre is the pipele the popular gay district of Prahran Melbourne, veloped by Lifeview Rintial Care wh the support of the Prahran Cy Straw, a Melbourne archect specialisg acmodatn for olr muni, says he views the movement as a subset of a broar trend of niche centr aimed at brgg together likemd people their olr years. Rearch om the Stonewall Foundatn the UK suggts elrly gay and lbian people are almost twice as likely as their heterosexual peers to expect to rely on medil, hog, re and home help servic. The gay rights activist and amic Rodney Croome says such facili n help quell the prejudice faced by agg members of the LGBT muny.

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Atralia’s first retirement village for gay, lbian and transgenr people will help tackle discrimatn, ’s veloper says. Bacch Marsh-born Peter Dickson said the $26 ln Lton Estate to be built Ballan regnal Victoria will... * gay retirement village victoria *

AUSTRALIA'S first gay and lbian retirement village is beg built on Geelong's doorstep at Ballan 120-un plex for over 55s is beg built on the Ballan-Geelong Rd, and will clu an door heated spa, bar and croquet is expected to start on the plex early next year, and terted people will be able to buy uns off the plan two months time, the Geelong Advertiser said. Developer Peter Dickson has billed the $30 ln Lton Estate retirement village as a haven for the gay, lbian and bisexual Dickson said he had exprsns of tert om 226 people om across the world cludg Turkey, England and the Uned Stat as well as om Victoria and also said there had been some tert om people Daylford, 20 mut up the road, which has a sizeable gay and lbian retirement village, at the junctn of Old Melbourne and Ballan-Geelong roads, will be built five newsagent Ian Ireland said the retirement village would be a wele addn to the town, which was experiencg rapid Ireland said the area qutn along the Ballan-Geelong Rd was formerly farmland which had been subdivid to large allotments of about 12 hectar. Atralia’s first retirement village for gay, lbian and transgenr people will help tackle discrimatn, ’s veloper says.

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Bacch Marsh-born Peter Dickson said the $26 ln Lton Estate to be built Ballan regnal Victoria will be marketed to the homosexual muny but would wele any “like-md” or tolerant rints. Although the number of people regnizg gay rights is steadily creasg, there is still a gap when to fdg supportive muni for LGBT senrs. For the senr LGBT people, here are rmatn on fdg gay-iendly retirement muni.

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Property vtor DomaCom is g s crowd-fundg platform to raise pal to fund a $25 ln gay and lbian retirement village, proposed near Ballan, central Victoria." name="scriptn * gay retirement village victoria *

Acrdg to statistics published on Statista, 3% of Atralia’s adult populatn intified as gay, lbian or bisexual.

What would happen if a gay, lbian, bisexual, or transgenr senr has been discrimated agast? The pot is to improve on the servic and provi the better, or even the bt, senr re than what has been provid the is a need for more LGBT specific tn and awarens to providg assisted livg need to be traed on how to treat and be more clive of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr persons.

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It is one of the pneers providg Persons Advocy Network (OPAN) This is a work prised of ne state anisatns Atralia that liver advocy and LGBT iendly senr livg They exist to provi a rponsive and clive environment that advanc qualy life for olr persons of diverse sexuali and genr and About: This is a muny that offers support to sexual mory muni and their loved Posive Victoria: This muny provis help to persons livg wh HIV terms of their human rights and Guild: This is a group formed by lbian femists to help lbians who are forty years or the Queens Men – Digal Dance Club: This is one of the most popular dance programm aimed at nnectg gay and lbian people pl members om other sexual mori onle. Photo: Jennifer DeAtralia’s first lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and tersex (LGBTI) retirement tate was dreamed up over a glass of Dickson was jokg about the future wh iends when a glimmer of the ia had jt bought his first vtment property, yet realised that spe this, “None of would have been a suatn to later retire [fortably]”. The proposed Ballan velopment is lled Lton a project webse, s backers scribe as beg the "world's first rintial village for [the] gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr, tersex muny and like-md people, wh the flexibily to be a weekend retreat or a place to retire".

Atralia’s first gay and lbian retirement village is beg built on Geelong’s doorstep at Ballan, ditg there is mand for rintial tat for same-sex upl.

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Acrdg to Dickson, there has been a fair b of tert om people Daylford, which has a sizeable gay and lbian populatn. Given that gay and lbian “areas” are still a fairly foreign ncept Atralia, perhaps there are opportuni for entreprenrs wh a passn for property to tap to the ia.

Atralia’s first gay-only retirement village will be built regnal Victoria, acrdg to an article the Herald Sun. He said olr gay, lbian and transgenr people wanted to be wh iends.

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Earlier this year I read that I now have the opportuny to live a gay retirement “village” the heart of Vxhall – a safe haven for people who fear beg forced back to the closet nventnal retirement hom.

But is exclive – and expensive – hog jt another way of creatg a gay or HIV ghetto, cut off om society? A great many olr LGBT+ people have experienced stigma and discrimatn durg their liv; were growg up or g out when was illegal to be homosexual. I have heard stori of LGBT+ people beg hound om their hom by homophobic neighbours and few report mor abe to the police bee of the historil ntext – through the fear of beg harassed and arrted by them.

This is the generatn who fought for LGBT+ rights, the crimalisatn of homosexualy, gay liberatn, marched agast Sectn 28, fought for civil partnerships, same-sex marriage and bore the bnt of the AIDS epimic. Those livg wh HIV today who survived the epimic of the 80s and 90s have even more poignant stori to tell – discrimated agast for not only beg gay but vilified for tchg the “gay plague”, which of urse, never was.

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