Europe’s first LGBT retirement home, a most 80s apartment block Stockholm, giv gay people a iendly place which to grow old. It’s the start of a growg trend, disvers <strong>Eleanor Margolis</strong>
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- THEY LIVED A 'DOUBLE LIFE' FOR S. NOW, THE GAY ELRS ARE TELLG THEIR STORI.
- FLORIDA'S MOST FAMO GAYBORHOOD VTS HOM FOR GAY SENRS
- THE UK'S FIRST GAY OLD PEOPLE'S HOME TO OPEN WH THREE YEARS
- THE 11 OF TOP GAY RETIREMENT HOM IN THE US
THEY LIVED A 'DOUBLE LIFE' FOR S. NOW, THE GAY ELRS ARE TELLG THEIR STORI.
He was rponsible for preparg discharge and reassignment paperwork, and sometim he would have to dishonorably discharge men for beg gay.
“At that time I realized that I was gay, and was jt difficult to know that people were beg discharged for the same thg that I was my life. ”“What bothered me the most was havg to talk to the guys that were beg discharged, and they were not a good state of wellns anyway, bee at that time, was illegal or nsired mental problems to be gay, ” he Cunngham, 82, and Richard Prtt, 78, have llectively spent 115 years the closet. Godss Magora Kennedy, who participated the Stonewall uprisg, and Pl Barby, who ran for Congrs as an openly gay man 1996 and 1998.
”Livg a 'double life'Cunngham said he realized he was gay as a teenager, but he didn’t know the word “gay” at the time — he jt knew he was different. Begng the late 1960s, many stat crimalized homosexualy through sodomy laws.
FLORIDA'S MOST FAMO GAYBORHOOD VTS HOM FOR GAY SENRS
The Amerin Psychiatric Associatn also classified homosexualy as a mental disorr the Diagnostic and Statistil Manual of Mental Disorrs until 1973, when that classifitn was replaced wh “sexual orientatn disturbance. ” Homosexualy was pletely removed om the manual 1987, but many stat still had sodomy laws on their books until 2003, when the Supreme Court led such laws unnstutnal. You'd have a lbian iend wh you, or they would have a gay man on their arm or somethg, and was a way of hidg.
”Cunngham and Prtt met the mid-'90s while workg for a b pany, but they still didn’t e out bee, acrdg to Cunngham, “If you were gay, you were not promoted.
THE UK'S FIRST GAY OLD PEOPLE'S HOME TO OPEN WH THREE YEARS
And then when you get olr you see the gay pri gog on and people totally enjoyg themselv....
Rearch published the journal The Gerontologist last fall found that lbian, gay and bisexual people have a higher risk of mentia and gnive cle than heterosexual people as they grow olr.
The study’s thors found that the creased risk was partially due to higher rat of prsn that olr LGBTQ people experience due to workplace discrimatn, shame and other stigma associated wh their stigma still persists, but the elrs and producers behd “Not Another Send” hope their project n help, even if jt a small Cooper lived her whole life as an openly gay woman New York Cy.
THE 11 OF TOP GAY RETIREMENT HOM IN THE US
Karsten ThormaehlenOne of the elrs featured the exhib, Lujira Cooper, 72, lived nearly her whole life as an openly gay woman. An expanse of intik 80s apartment block screams “Nordic noir” but don’t so much as whisper “gay”. The whe walls are dotted wh patgs and, one rner, a rabow-loured ke stands as a small “here be gays” Regnbågen opened, the mand for LGBT senr hog had already been regnised outsi Europe, wh hom existg the US, Canada and Atralia.