Atralias 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...
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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]”.
Peter Dickson’s dream of tablishg Atralia’s first LGBT (lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr) rintial village untry Victoria me om a eply personal motivatn.
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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.
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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. 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. 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?