'We're not hidg': Gay and lbian Rsians say a cultural shift is unrway

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• 'WE'RE NOT HIDG': GAY AND LBIAN RSIANS SAY A CULTURAL SHIFT IS UNRWAY
• LGBTQ+ AFFIRMG COUNSELLORS NOTTGHAM, ENG
• STONEWALL HOE, NEW YORK CY’S FIRST EVER LGBT-WELG SENR HOG, OPENS ITS DOORSHOME SWEET HOMESTONEWALL HOE BROOKLYN IS NEW YORK CY’S FIRST LGBT-WELG SENR HOG. ITS POPULATN WILL BE ROUGHLY 50 PER CENT LGBT AND 50 PER CENT STRAIGHT—AND OPENS TODAY.TIM TEEMANSENR EDOR AND WRERUPDATED DEC. 17, 2019 12:07PM EST / PUBLISHED DEC. 17, 2019 5:26AM EST PHOTO ILLTRATN BY THE DAILY BEAST/PHOTO COURTY INGERSOLL RENRGDIEDRA NOTTGHAM IS GETTG READY TO MOVE TO HER NEW APARTMENT, AND SHE ULD NOT BE MORE EXCED.THE 69-YEAR-OLD LBIAN WILL BE ONE OF THE FIRST TENANTS OF STONEWALL HOE, THE FIRST EVER LGBT-WELG SENR HOG VELOPMENT NEW YORK CY. THIS HISTORIC BUILDG WILL BE CLARED OFFICIALLY OPEN TODAY, TUDAY, WH THE FIRST RINTS EXPECTED TO MOVE TO THE 145-UN BUILDG NEAR FORT GREENE PARK BROOKLYN BEFORE CHRISTMAS, WH THE RT OF THE RINTS MOVG THROUGHOUT JANUARY.  THE DAILY BEAST EXCLIVELY REPORTED ON THE NSTCTN OF STONEWALL HOE MARCH. IT IS THE LARGT SUCH VELOPMENT THE UNTRY, AND S NSTCTN HAS BEEN OVERSEEN BY BFC PARTNERS, THE VELOPER OF STONEWALL HOE, PARTNERSHIP WH SAGE, THE WORLD’S LARGT AND OLST ANIZATN DITED TO IMPROVG THE LIV OF LGBT OLR PEOPLE. THE STARS AND STRIP AND THE RABOW FLAG BOTH FLY PROUDLY AT THE TOP OF STONEWALL HOE.“IN 2019, THIS 50TH ANNIVERSARY YEAR OF THE STONEWALL UPRISG, WE ULDN’T THK OF A BETTER NAME FOR THE FIRST BUILDG OF THIS KD,” MICHAEL ADAMS, CEO OF SAGE, TOLD THE DAILY BEAST. “PEOPLE WILL BE ABLE TO LIVE THEIR LIV EELY AND OPENLY THIS BUILDG. WE SEE OUR ELRS AS HERO AND WANT THEM TO BE TREATED AS SUCH WHEN LIVG THEIR OWN HOM. THAT’S WHAT WE WANT TO ACPLISH WH THIS BUILDG.” “I’M MOVG THE FIRST WEEK OF JANUARY,” NOTTGHAM, WHO PRENTLY LIV THE BRONX, TOLD THE DAILY BEAST. “I ALWAYS WANTED TO BE A GAY-IENDLY ENVIRONMENT WHOUT DISCRIMATN, AND THE GLAR AND LOOKS YOU N GET OM PEOPLE. IT’S A GREAT MUNY AND AREA. I’M LOOKG FORWARD TO MEETG NEW PEOPLE AND JOG NEW GROUPS. I HAVE BEEN AN ADVOTE FOR THE LGBTQ MUNY EVEN BACK WHEN WE WERE ILLEGAL.”LUIS LIZARDI OM PUERTO RI LOST EVERYTHG DUE TO HURRINE MARIA WHEN STCK SEPTEMBER 2017. THE 67-YEAR-OLD GAY MAN TOLD THE DAILY BEAST HE HAD FACED HOMOPHOBIA ON THE ISLAND, AND HAD SUFFERED A HEART ATTACK AS HE TRIED TO SURVIVE THERE AFTER MARIA.  “I’M DYG TO BE THERE, YOU HAVE NO IA. IT MEANS PEACE OF MD, BEG ABLE TO TAKE MY CLOTH OUT OF MY BAGS AND BE A PLACE MORE OR LS PERMANENTLY. I HOPE BE THERE THE RT OF MY LIFE, AND FD NEW IENDS” LIZARDI HAS BEEN LIVG SHELTERS NEW YORK CY SCE JUNE OF THIS YEAR, AND MORE RECENTLY HAS SLEPT ON A IEND’S SOFA. HE IS FALIZG HIS LEASE TO MOVE TO STONEWALL HOE.“IF I ULD, I WISH I ULD MOVE TOMORROW,” LIZARDI TOLD THE DAILY BEAST. “I’M DYG TO BE THERE, YOU HAVE NO IA. IT MEANS PEACE OF MD, BEG ABLE TO TAKE MY CLOTH OUT OF MY BAGS, AND BE A PLACE MORE OR LS PERMANENTLY. I HOPE TO BE THERE FOR THE RT OF MY LIFE, AND FD NEW IENDS.” LUIS LIZARDI ON THE BALNY OF STONEWALL HOE BROOKLYN, WHICH OPENS TODAY, TUDAY: “I HOPE TO BE THERE FOR THE RT OF MY LIFE, AND FD NEW IENDS.” STONEWALL HOE WILL PROVI AFFORDABLE HOG FOR DIVIDUALS OVER 62 YEARS OF AGE WHO EARN 60 PERCENT OR LS OF THE AREA MEDIAN E. THE VELOPMENT OF STONEWALL HOE EVOLVED ALONGSI MAYOR BILL BLAS PLACG AN EMPHASIS ON VELOPG LGBT-IENDLY HOG FOR ELRS AS PART HIS HOG PLAN FOR NEW YORK CY.UNS THE BUILDG CLU 54 STUDS AND 91 ONE-BEDROOM APARTMENTS, WH 25 PERCENT OF THOSE OCCUPIED BY FORMERLY HOMELS OLR PEOPLE, WHO WILL BE AMONG THE FIRST MOST -NEED TENANTS TO MOVE TO THE BUILDG.AS THE DAILY BEAST REPORTED MARCH, SIAR VELOPMENTS ALREADY EXIST LOS ANGEL, PHILALPHIA, CHIGO, AND MNEAPOLIS. NEW YORK CY, FOR ONCE, IS NOT SETTG THE PACE, BUT PLAYG TCH-UP.SAGE WILL ALSO OPERATE THE SAGE CENTER BROOKLYN AT STONEWALL HOE, A 7,000 SQUARE-FOOT MUNY CENTER LOTED ON THE PROPERTY’S GROUND FLOOR. IT WILL OPEN MID-JANUARY, ADAMS TOLD THE DAILY BEAST. “IT’S ONE OF THE PLITED WRKL A PROJECT LIKE THIS. THE BUILDGS ARE NEED BEE OF HIGH LEVELS OF DISCRIMATN AGAST LGBT PEOPLE, AND WE ALSO NNOT DISCRIMATE WHEN TO POPULATG A BUILDG” THE BUILDG WILL NOT HOE LGBT PEOPLE EXCLIVELY; THE SPL WILL BE ROUGHLY 50-50 WH STRAIGHT RINTS. “IT WAS NEVER OUR GOAL TO CREATE A BUILDG EXCLIVELY FOR LGBT PEOPLE,” SAID ADAMS, “BUT TO CREATE A MUNY THAT WAS LGBT-IENDLY. ALL RINTS APPLYG TO LIVE THERE UNRSTAND THE SPIR AND GOALS OF THE BUILDG.” ADAMS SAID NEW YORK CY AND STATE DISCRIMATN LAWS MEANT THAT WOULD BE ILLEGAL TO NSTCT A BUILDG FOR SOLELY LGBT ELRS. “IT’S ONE OF THE PLITED WRKL A PROJECT LIKE THIS,” HE SAID. “THE BUILDGS ARE NEED BEE OF HIGH LEVELS OF DISCRIMATN AGAST LGBT PEOPLE, AND WE ALSO NNOT DISCRIMATE WHEN TO POPULATG A BUILDG.”A 2014 REPORT BY THE EQUAL RIGHTS CENTER FOUND NEARLY HALF (48 PERCENT) OF SAME-SEX LGBT OLR UPL APPLYG FOR SENR HOG WERE SUBJECTED TO DISCRIMATN. STUDI ALSO SHOW THAT 25 PERCENT OF TRANSGENR OLR ADULTS EXPERIENCE HOG DISCRIMATN ON THE BASIS OF THEIR GENR INTI.ADAMS SAID THERE WAS A SHORTAGE OF AFFORDABLE HOG FOR ELRS GENERALLY, AND THE DISCRIMATN AND PREJUDICE LGBT ELRS FACED POUND THEIR PROBLEMS. “THAT IS WHY THIS BUILDG IS SO IMPORTANT.”AUTHORI HAD TO P THE APPLITNS TO LIVE AT STONEWALL HOE WHEN THE NUMBER REACHED 2,000, ADAMS SAID. “THERE ARE MORE THAN 100,000 LGBT ELRS LIVG NEW YORK CY, MANY FACG SIGNIFINT HOG CHALLENG. MANY, MANY MORE FOLKS NEED THIS KD OF HOG. IT’S IMPORTANT WE BUILD MORE OF , AND PROVI THE TRAG AND SUPPORT A MASTREAM SENR HOG NTEXT SO ALL HOG IS WELG OF LGBTQ PEOPLE.”ADAMS SAID LGBT ELRS FACED TWO DISTCT CHALLENG WHEN ME TO ACCSG HOG. THE FIRST IS BEG TREATED FAIRLY THE APPLITN PROCS, AND THEN ONCE HOED FEELG SAFE AND SECURE AROUND NEIGHBORS WHO N BE HOMOPHOBIC OR TRANSPHOBIC. LGBT ELRS ALSO EXPERIENCE ISSU AROUND ISOLATN.ADAMS SAID THAT MANY OF THE FIRST RINTS MOVG TO STONEWALL HOE WERE HOMELS OR, LIKE LIZARDI, LIVG SHELTERS. “FOR MANY WILL BE THE FIRST PERMANENT HOG THEY HAVE HAD YEARS. IT’S CREDIBLY IMPORTANT, AND THE FACT THAT ’S THE HOLIDAYS MAK EVEN MORE POWERFUL.” “THE SLE OF THE HOG CHALLENGE FACG LGBT OLR PEOPLE NEW YORK CY AND ACROSS THE UNTRY IS REALLY DRAMATIC. NEXT, WE WILL BE ENURAGG THE VELOPMENT OF OTHER LGBT-IENDLY ELR HOG” A SEND, AS YET UNNAMED SAGE-SUPPORTED LGBT-IENDLY ELR RINTIAL FACILY WILL OPEN THE BRONX MARCH OR APRIL, SAID ADAMS. IT WILL HAVE 83 APARTMENTS.“THE SLE OF THE HOG CHALLENGE FACG LGBT OLR PEOPLE NEW YORK CY AND ACROSS THE UNTRY IS REALLY DRAMATIC,” SAID ADAMS. “NEXT, WE WILL BE ENURAGG THE VELOPMENT OF OTHER LGBT-IENDLY ELR HOG.”PLANS FOR LGBT ELR HOG WERE FIRST DREAMT UP BY SAGE THE 1980S; ADAMS HAS A BOX OF YELLOWG PAPERS HIS OFFICE WH NASCENT PLANS OM THAT TIME. THE BROOKLYN AND BRONX BUILDGS WERE FIRST PROPOSED NEARLY FIVE YEARS AGO, WH GROUND BROKEN ON BOTH PROJECTS OVER TWO YEARS AGO.STONEWALL HOE HAS RECEIVED FANCG OM THE NEW YORK CY DEPARTMENT OF HOG PRERVATN AND DEVELOPMENT, NEW YORK CY HOG DEVELOPMENT CORPORATN AND WELLS FARGO. IT WAS VELOPED UNR NEW YORK CY’S SENR AFFORDABLE RENTAL APARTMENTS (SARA) PROGRAM. INGERSOLL RENRG “TODAY IS A TE CELEBRATN FOR NEW YORK CY. WE ARE PROUD TO PARTNER WH SAGE AND THE BLAS ADMISTRATN AND LIVER THIS TLY TRANSFORMATIVE HOG THAT IS WELG AND SUPPORTIVE OF LGBTQ SENRS AND THEIR FAI,” DON CAPOCCIA, PRCIPAL AND FOUNR OF BFC PARTNERS, SAID A STATEMENT. “WE HOPE THAT THIS PROJECT BLAZ A PATH FORWARD FOR STAKEHOLRS ACROSS THE NATN TO STEP UP TO THE PLATE AND FURTHER HELP AGG MEMBERS OF THE LGBTQ MUNY, MANY OF WHOM PLAYED KEY ROL THE STONEWALL UPRISG AND HELPED CHANGE THE NVERSATN AROUND CIVIL RIGHTS AMERI.”FOR NOTTGHAM, AS SHE GETS READY TO MOVE, ’S “LIKE G BACK HOME,” AS SHE WAS BORN AND BRED BROOKLYN. ONE OF HER SISTERS HAS NCER, AND SO NOW LIVG NEAR HER WILL MAKE RG FOR HER EASIER.  “I’M SO EXCED. I’LL BE VOLVED WH THE MUNY. WE’LL HAVE GROUPS THE BUILDG. I EXPECT TO BE SAFE, AND TO MEET NEW IENDS” NOTTGHAM RELLED THE VERBAL AND PHYSIL HOMOPHOBIA SHE HAD EXPERIENCED HER LIFE, AND IENDS WHO WERE BEATEN “UNTIL THEY WERE UNREGNIZABLE. IT’S SO SAD. PEOPLE DON’T LIKE PEOPLE WHO ARE DIFFERENT. BUT LIFE IS TOO SHORT TO HATE PEOPLE. I TRY AND STAY AWAY OM HATEFUL PEOPLE. EVEN SOME FAY MEMBERS HAVE SENT ME LETTERS WISHG I WOULD DIE. I DON’T UNRSTAND THE HATE THE WORLD. WE SHOULD BE NICE AND KD.”AT STONEWALL HOE, NOTTGHAM SAID SHE WAS “LOOKG FORWARD TO BEG MYSELF, AND SE MORE AND BE HAPPY.” SHE LGHED HEARTILY. “I’M SO EXCED. I’LL BE VOLVED WH THE MUNY. WE’LL HAVE GROUPS THE BUILDG. I EXPECT TO BE SAFE, AND TO MEET NEW IENDS.” SHE IS SGLE, HER PARTNER HAVG DIED OF OVARIAN NCER “20-SOMETHG YEARS AGO. I’M NOT ON THE MARKET FOR ANYTHG, BUT IF HAPPENS HAPPENS. I WANT TO LIVE A PEACEFUL, HEALTHY, ENJOYABLE LIFE.”LIZARDI, A FORMER DANCER, DANCE TEACHER AND LANGUAGE TUTOR, IS ALSO LOOKG FORWARD TO MEETG NEW PEOPLE, AS WELL AS WRG A MEMOIR AND FICTN. WHEN THIS REPORTER ASKED WHAT STONEWALL HOE MEANT TO LIZARDI, HE SAID, “SAFETY. HOPE.” HE PSED, AND HIS VOICE CRACKED. “I’M GOG TO CRY NOW. AND DIGNY. I WANT TO REGA MY DIGNY. THAT’S .” THE STARS AND STRIP AND RABOW FLAG ATOP STONEWALL HOE TIM TEEMAN
• NOTTGHAM'S OLST GAY BAR HONOURED WH CY'S FIRST PK PLAQUE CELEBRATG LGBT+ HERAGE

'WE'RE NOT HIDG': GAY AND LBIAN RSIANS SAY A CULTURAL SHIFT IS UNRWAY

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STONEWALL HOE, NEW YORK CY’S FIRST EVER LGBT-WELG SENR HOG, OPENS ITS DOORSHOME SWEET HOMESTONEWALL HOE BROOKLYN IS NEW YORK CY’S FIRST LGBT-WELG SENR HOG. ITS POPULATN WILL BE ROUGHLY 50 PER CENT LGBT AND 50 PER CENT STRAIGHT—AND OPENS TODAY.TIM TEEMANSENR EDOR AND WRERUPDATED DEC. 17, 2019 12:07PM EST / PUBLISHED DEC. 17, 2019 5:26AM EST PHOTO ILLTRATN BY THE DAILY BEAST/PHOTO COURTY INGERSOLL RENRGDIEDRA NOTTGHAM IS GETTG READY TO MOVE TO HER NEW APARTMENT, AND SHE ULD NOT BE MORE EXCED.THE 69-YEAR-OLD LBIAN WILL BE ONE OF THE FIRST TENANTS OF STONEWALL HOE, THE FIRST EVER LGBT-WELG SENR HOG VELOPMENT NEW YORK CY. THIS HISTORIC BUILDG WILL BE CLARED OFFICIALLY OPEN TODAY, TUDAY, WH THE FIRST RINTS EXPECTED TO MOVE TO THE 145-UN BUILDG NEAR FORT GREENE PARK BROOKLYN BEFORE CHRISTMAS, WH THE RT OF THE RINTS MOVG THROUGHOUT JANUARY.  THE DAILY BEAST EXCLIVELY REPORTED ON THE NSTCTN OF STONEWALL HOE MARCH. IT IS THE LARGT SUCH VELOPMENT THE UNTRY, AND S NSTCTN HAS BEEN OVERSEEN BY BFC PARTNERS, THE VELOPER OF STONEWALL HOE, PARTNERSHIP WH SAGE, THE WORLD’S LARGT AND OLST ANIZATN DITED TO IMPROVG THE LIV OF LGBT OLR PEOPLE. THE STARS AND STRIP AND THE RABOW FLAG BOTH FLY PROUDLY AT THE TOP OF STONEWALL HOE.“IN 2019, THIS 50TH ANNIVERSARY YEAR OF THE STONEWALL UPRISG, WE ULDN’T THK OF A BETTER NAME FOR THE FIRST BUILDG OF THIS KD,” MICHAEL ADAMS, CEO OF SAGE, TOLD THE DAILY BEAST. “PEOPLE WILL BE ABLE TO LIVE THEIR LIV EELY AND OPENLY THIS BUILDG. WE SEE OUR ELRS AS HERO AND WANT THEM TO BE TREATED AS SUCH WHEN LIVG THEIR OWN HOM. THAT’S WHAT WE WANT TO ACPLISH WH THIS BUILDG.” “I’M MOVG THE FIRST WEEK OF JANUARY,” NOTTGHAM, WHO PRENTLY LIV THE BRONX, TOLD THE DAILY BEAST. “I ALWAYS WANTED TO BE A GAY-IENDLY ENVIRONMENT WHOUT DISCRIMATN, AND THE GLAR AND LOOKS YOU N GET OM PEOPLE. IT’S A GREAT MUNY AND AREA. I’M LOOKG FORWARD TO MEETG NEW PEOPLE AND JOG NEW GROUPS. I HAVE BEEN AN ADVOTE FOR THE LGBTQ MUNY EVEN BACK WHEN WE WERE ILLEGAL.”LUIS LIZARDI OM PUERTO RI LOST EVERYTHG DUE TO HURRINE MARIA WHEN STCK SEPTEMBER 2017. THE 67-YEAR-OLD GAY MAN TOLD THE DAILY BEAST HE HAD FACED HOMOPHOBIA ON THE ISLAND, AND HAD SUFFERED A HEART ATTACK AS HE TRIED TO SURVIVE THERE AFTER MARIA.  “I’M DYG TO BE THERE, YOU HAVE NO IA. IT MEANS PEACE OF MD, BEG ABLE TO TAKE MY CLOTH OUT OF MY BAGS AND BE A PLACE MORE OR LS PERMANENTLY. I HOPE BE THERE THE RT OF MY LIFE, AND FD NEW IENDS” LIZARDI HAS BEEN LIVG SHELTERS NEW YORK CY SCE JUNE OF THIS YEAR, AND MORE RECENTLY HAS SLEPT ON A IEND’S SOFA. HE IS FALIZG HIS LEASE TO MOVE TO STONEWALL HOE.“IF I ULD, I WISH I ULD MOVE TOMORROW,” LIZARDI TOLD THE DAILY BEAST. “I’M DYG TO BE THERE, YOU HAVE NO IA. IT MEANS PEACE OF MD, BEG ABLE TO TAKE MY CLOTH OUT OF MY BAGS, AND BE A PLACE MORE OR LS PERMANENTLY. I HOPE TO BE THERE FOR THE RT OF MY LIFE, AND FD NEW IENDS.” LUIS LIZARDI ON THE BALNY OF STONEWALL HOE BROOKLYN, WHICH OPENS TODAY, TUDAY: “I HOPE TO BE THERE FOR THE RT OF MY LIFE, AND FD NEW IENDS.” STONEWALL HOE WILL PROVI AFFORDABLE HOG FOR DIVIDUALS OVER 62 YEARS OF AGE WHO EARN 60 PERCENT OR LS OF THE AREA MEDIAN E. THE VELOPMENT OF STONEWALL HOE EVOLVED ALONGSI MAYOR BILL BLAS PLACG AN EMPHASIS ON VELOPG LGBT-IENDLY HOG FOR ELRS AS PART HIS HOG PLAN FOR NEW YORK CY.UNS THE BUILDG CLU 54 STUDS AND 91 ONE-BEDROOM APARTMENTS, WH 25 PERCENT OF THOSE OCCUPIED BY FORMERLY HOMELS OLR PEOPLE, WHO WILL BE AMONG THE FIRST MOST -NEED TENANTS TO MOVE TO THE BUILDG.AS THE DAILY BEAST REPORTED MARCH, SIAR VELOPMENTS ALREADY EXIST LOS ANGEL, PHILALPHIA, CHIGO, AND MNEAPOLIS. NEW YORK CY, FOR ONCE, IS NOT SETTG THE PACE, BUT PLAYG TCH-UP.SAGE WILL ALSO OPERATE THE SAGE CENTER BROOKLYN AT STONEWALL HOE, A 7,000 SQUARE-FOOT MUNY CENTER LOTED ON THE PROPERTY’S GROUND FLOOR. IT WILL OPEN MID-JANUARY, ADAMS TOLD THE DAILY BEAST. “IT’S ONE OF THE PLITED WRKL A PROJECT LIKE THIS. THE BUILDGS ARE NEED BEE OF HIGH LEVELS OF DISCRIMATN AGAST LGBT PEOPLE, AND WE ALSO NNOT DISCRIMATE WHEN TO POPULATG A BUILDG” THE BUILDG WILL NOT HOE LGBT PEOPLE EXCLIVELY; THE SPL WILL BE ROUGHLY 50-50 WH STRAIGHT RINTS. “IT WAS NEVER OUR GOAL TO CREATE A BUILDG EXCLIVELY FOR LGBT PEOPLE,” SAID ADAMS, “BUT TO CREATE A MUNY THAT WAS LGBT-IENDLY. ALL RINTS APPLYG TO LIVE THERE UNRSTAND THE SPIR AND GOALS OF THE BUILDG.” ADAMS SAID NEW YORK CY AND STATE DISCRIMATN LAWS MEANT THAT WOULD BE ILLEGAL TO NSTCT A BUILDG FOR SOLELY LGBT ELRS. “IT’S ONE OF THE PLITED WRKL A PROJECT LIKE THIS,” HE SAID. “THE BUILDGS ARE NEED BEE OF HIGH LEVELS OF DISCRIMATN AGAST LGBT PEOPLE, AND WE ALSO NNOT DISCRIMATE WHEN TO POPULATG A BUILDG.”A 2014 REPORT BY THE EQUAL RIGHTS CENTER FOUND NEARLY HALF (48 PERCENT) OF SAME-SEX LGBT OLR UPL APPLYG FOR SENR HOG WERE SUBJECTED TO DISCRIMATN. STUDI ALSO SHOW THAT 25 PERCENT OF TRANSGENR OLR ADULTS EXPERIENCE HOG DISCRIMATN ON THE BASIS OF THEIR GENR INTI.ADAMS SAID THERE WAS A SHORTAGE OF AFFORDABLE HOG FOR ELRS GENERALLY, AND THE DISCRIMATN AND PREJUDICE LGBT ELRS FACED POUND THEIR PROBLEMS. “THAT IS WHY THIS BUILDG IS SO IMPORTANT.”AUTHORI HAD TO P THE APPLITNS TO LIVE AT STONEWALL HOE WHEN THE NUMBER REACHED 2,000, ADAMS SAID. “THERE ARE MORE THAN 100,000 LGBT ELRS LIVG NEW YORK CY, MANY FACG SIGNIFINT HOG CHALLENG. MANY, MANY MORE FOLKS NEED THIS KD OF HOG. IT’S IMPORTANT WE BUILD MORE OF , AND PROVI THE TRAG AND SUPPORT A MASTREAM SENR HOG NTEXT SO ALL HOG IS WELG OF LGBTQ PEOPLE.”ADAMS SAID LGBT ELRS FACED TWO DISTCT CHALLENG WHEN ME TO ACCSG HOG. THE FIRST IS BEG TREATED FAIRLY THE APPLITN PROCS, AND THEN ONCE HOED FEELG SAFE AND SECURE AROUND NEIGHBORS WHO N BE HOMOPHOBIC OR TRANSPHOBIC. LGBT ELRS ALSO EXPERIENCE ISSU AROUND ISOLATN.ADAMS SAID THAT MANY OF THE FIRST RINTS MOVG TO STONEWALL HOE WERE HOMELS OR, LIKE LIZARDI, LIVG SHELTERS. “FOR MANY WILL BE THE FIRST PERMANENT HOG THEY HAVE HAD YEARS. IT’S CREDIBLY IMPORTANT, AND THE FACT THAT ’S THE HOLIDAYS MAK EVEN MORE POWERFUL.” “THE SLE OF THE HOG CHALLENGE FACG LGBT OLR PEOPLE NEW YORK CY AND ACROSS THE UNTRY IS REALLY DRAMATIC. NEXT, WE WILL BE ENURAGG THE VELOPMENT OF OTHER LGBT-IENDLY ELR HOG” A SEND, AS YET UNNAMED SAGE-SUPPORTED LGBT-IENDLY ELR RINTIAL FACILY WILL OPEN THE BRONX MARCH OR APRIL, SAID ADAMS. IT WILL HAVE 83 APARTMENTS.“THE SLE OF THE HOG CHALLENGE FACG LGBT OLR PEOPLE NEW YORK CY AND ACROSS THE UNTRY IS REALLY DRAMATIC,” SAID ADAMS. “NEXT, WE WILL BE ENURAGG THE VELOPMENT OF OTHER LGBT-IENDLY ELR HOG.”PLANS FOR LGBT ELR HOG WERE FIRST DREAMT UP BY SAGE THE 1980S; ADAMS HAS A BOX OF YELLOWG PAPERS HIS OFFICE WH NASCENT PLANS OM THAT TIME. THE BROOKLYN AND BRONX BUILDGS WERE FIRST PROPOSED NEARLY FIVE YEARS AGO, WH GROUND BROKEN ON BOTH PROJECTS OVER TWO YEARS AGO.STONEWALL HOE HAS RECEIVED FANCG OM THE NEW YORK CY DEPARTMENT OF HOG PRERVATN AND DEVELOPMENT, NEW YORK CY HOG DEVELOPMENT CORPORATN AND WELLS FARGO. IT WAS VELOPED UNR NEW YORK CY’S SENR AFFORDABLE RENTAL APARTMENTS (SARA) PROGRAM. INGERSOLL RENRG “TODAY IS A TE CELEBRATN FOR NEW YORK CY. WE ARE PROUD TO PARTNER WH SAGE AND THE BLAS ADMISTRATN AND LIVER THIS TLY TRANSFORMATIVE HOG THAT IS WELG AND SUPPORTIVE OF LGBTQ SENRS AND THEIR FAI,” DON CAPOCCIA, PRCIPAL AND FOUNR OF BFC PARTNERS, SAID A STATEMENT. “WE HOPE THAT THIS PROJECT BLAZ A PATH FORWARD FOR STAKEHOLRS ACROSS THE NATN TO STEP UP TO THE PLATE AND FURTHER HELP AGG MEMBERS OF THE LGBTQ MUNY, MANY OF WHOM PLAYED KEY ROL THE STONEWALL UPRISG AND HELPED CHANGE THE NVERSATN AROUND CIVIL RIGHTS AMERI.”FOR NOTTGHAM, AS SHE GETS READY TO MOVE, ’S “LIKE G BACK HOME,” AS SHE WAS BORN AND BRED BROOKLYN. ONE OF HER SISTERS HAS NCER, AND SO NOW LIVG NEAR HER WILL MAKE RG FOR HER EASIER.  “I’M SO EXCED. I’LL BE VOLVED WH THE MUNY. WE’LL HAVE GROUPS THE BUILDG. I EXPECT TO BE SAFE, AND TO MEET NEW IENDS” NOTTGHAM RELLED THE VERBAL AND PHYSIL HOMOPHOBIA SHE HAD EXPERIENCED HER LIFE, AND IENDS WHO WERE BEATEN “UNTIL THEY WERE UNREGNIZABLE. IT’S SO SAD. PEOPLE DON’T LIKE PEOPLE WHO ARE DIFFERENT. BUT LIFE IS TOO SHORT TO HATE PEOPLE. I TRY AND STAY AWAY OM HATEFUL PEOPLE. EVEN SOME FAY MEMBERS HAVE SENT ME LETTERS WISHG I WOULD DIE. I DON’T UNRSTAND THE HATE THE WORLD. WE SHOULD BE NICE AND KD.”AT STONEWALL HOE, NOTTGHAM SAID SHE WAS “LOOKG FORWARD TO BEG MYSELF, AND SE MORE AND BE HAPPY.” SHE LGHED HEARTILY. “I’M SO EXCED. I’LL BE VOLVED WH THE MUNY. WE’LL HAVE GROUPS THE BUILDG. I EXPECT TO BE SAFE, AND TO MEET NEW IENDS.” SHE IS SGLE, HER PARTNER HAVG DIED OF OVARIAN NCER “20-SOMETHG YEARS AGO. I’M NOT ON THE MARKET FOR ANYTHG, BUT IF HAPPENS HAPPENS. I WANT TO LIVE A PEACEFUL, HEALTHY, ENJOYABLE LIFE.”LIZARDI, A FORMER DANCER, DANCE TEACHER AND LANGUAGE TUTOR, IS ALSO LOOKG FORWARD TO MEETG NEW PEOPLE, AS WELL AS WRG A MEMOIR AND FICTN. WHEN THIS REPORTER ASKED WHAT STONEWALL HOE MEANT TO LIZARDI, HE SAID, “SAFETY. HOPE.” HE PSED, AND HIS VOICE CRACKED. “I’M GOG TO CRY NOW. AND DIGNY. I WANT TO REGA MY DIGNY. THAT’S .” THE STARS AND STRIP AND RABOW FLAG ATOP STONEWALL HOE TIM TEEMAN

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