Lucretia Kirby (above) and other LGBT rints of a Mneapolis apartment buildg celebrated the recent Supreme Court lg on gay marriage. This article, om the Inxed Annuy Learship Council, first appeared at
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- AT ‘SPIR ON LAKE,’ GAY RETIRE FD COMMUNY
- AT SPIR ON LAKE, GAY SENRS FD SAFE HAVEN
- MNEAPOLIS GAY CY GUI: LAND OF THE LAK AND LGBTQ INCLN
- AT SPIR ON LAKE, GAY SENRS FD SAFE HAVEN
AT ‘SPIR ON LAKE,’ GAY RETIRE FD COMMUNY
Spir on Lake Mneapolis is the first hog velopment Mnota to serve primarily lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr senrs, a group that fac unique safety and health challeng as they age. * spirit on lake minnesota lgbt *
Among the ems the 73-year-old brought wh him to his new home were a poster signed by the st of "Hairspray" the mil and a amed photo of Hertz marchg an early Mneapolis gay pri para.
It's the first hog velopment Mnota to serve primarily lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr senrs, a group that fac unique safety and health challeng as they age.
AT SPIR ON LAKE, GAY SENRS FD SAFE HAVEN
Learn more about Spir on Lake, a gay retirement home for Mneapolis. Read more this entry om Quatrefoil Library Mneapolis. * spirit on lake minnesota lgbt *
"It's about time to have a place for olr gay people to feel safe. Y., there was so ltle discsn of gay people that he didn't even know was possible to be gay. "There was no such thg as a gay person, " he said.
"I hated beg gay for a long time. Thgs began to change slowly followg the 1969 rts at New York Cy's Stonewall Inn, when gay patrons fought back agast police harassment. The rts helped igne a civil rights movement for gay and lbian people.
MNEAPOLIS GAY CY GUI: LAND OF THE LAK AND LGBTQ INCLN
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In 1983, Hertz opened Mnota's first gay bookstore, A Brother's Touch, south Mneapolis.
AT SPIR ON LAKE, GAY SENRS FD SAFE HAVEN
Ntled along the banks of the Mississippi River li the vivac Tw Ci, otherwise known as Mneapolis. A hub of arts and culture, ’s a cy wh spir. In this town, every neighborhood is a gayborhood and every door is open. * spirit on lake minnesota lgbt *
A photo of an early gay pri march urty of Harvey Hertz.
A 2010 report om the Natnal Gay and Lbian Task Force Policy Instute found that LGBT senrs were four tim ls likely to have children. Spir on Lake opened and celebrated the regn’s first hog (46 uns) built to serve olr members of the gay, lbian, bisexual, and transgenr muny and the new home of Quatrefoil Library, one of the few librari the untry specializg materials for GLBT patrons. Harvey Hertz, a gay man who me out s ago, was terrified that movg to a retirement muny would force him back to the closet.
Sce September, Hertz, Kirby and Lovaasen have joed others as the charter rints at Spir on Lake, a 46-un affordable hog plex marketed to olr members of the gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr muny. Only the send buildg of s kd the Uned Stat — more are unr nstctn or planned Chigo, Philalphia and San Francis — Spir on Lake’s backers say fills a growg need for a generatn of openly gay people now reachg their twilight years. 5 ln openly gay elrly people the U.