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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THE ONLY GAY (RETIREMENT HOME) THE VILLAGE
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Before Lydia, no lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr pensner the UK had ever stepped to a hog scheme signed to look after them. Below, vast railway l brg people to Waterloo statn om the so-lled home unti – a trip that endls young gay people have ma to pe. ”Lydia grew up around here the 1950s, before gentrifitn sent hoe pric to orb, and before the partial crimalisatn of homosexualy 1967.
“I still have that ticket, ” he built a life together, survived the Aids crisis – while losg numero iends – and wnsed dramatic attudal shifts towards homosexualy. 7 ln pound loan om London mayor Sadiq Khan to buy the apartments the borough of Lambeth, where almost 6% of rints intify as lbian, gay or bisexual – the hight percentage England.
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“(This) do not imply excln of those who do not intify as LGBT+, but actively valu those who rpect and celebrate LGBT+ people, ” said, timatg that Bra has more than 1 ln LGBT+ people over the scheme is set to be Bra’s first LGBT+ retirement centre, they are relatively mon the Uned Stat, where the number of LGBT+ people over 50 is set to more than double to 7 ln by 2030 om 3 ln percentage of Bra’s populatn that intifi as gay, lbian or bisexual is steadily risg, om 1. Reddg and her partner, Sylvia Daly, 79, have been together for more than 40 years after meetg at a group for Catholic lbian women, yet wasn’t until they moved to Brighton East Ssex four years ago that they felt safe as a gay uple.
7% of the UK populatn aged 16 and over intified as lbian, gay or bisexual 2019, showg a rise om 2. Renowned as the ‘olst’ lbian and gay retirement village Ameri, The Palms of Manasota Tampa Bay, Florida has been welg LGBT+ senrs as rints for years to live 21 dividual hom as part of a wir, safe muny. 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?