Posted on 06/10/2006 8:06:46 PM PDT by SteveMcKing
SAN FRANCISCO — Like other gay men in their golden years, Jack Norris and Seymour Sirota had heard the horror stories.
An elderly lesbian couple is housed on separate floors of a nursing home and kept from seeing each other. A gay retired college professor feels compelled to keep his sexual orientation a secret after his roommate at an assisted living facility asks to be transferred.
"I thought, 'We are not going to be in that situation,'" the 67-year-old Norris says crisply. "This is not going to happen to us in our final days."
That's how the two New Yorkers, partners for 14 years, landed at Rainbow Vision, a just-completed senior community in Santa Fe, N.M. From the private dining room named after Truman Capote to the cabaret where '60s teen icon Lesley "It's My Party" Gore was scheduled to appear this weekend, everything about the 146-unit retirement village was designed with the comfort of graying gays and lesbians in mind.
As the generation of gay men and lesbians who came out in the 1960s and '70s reaches retirement age, about a dozen specialized senior developments across the country are either up and running or in the works.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
'I don't want to be dependent on family, I want to be dependent on community,'
And more genius wisdom:
'We need to be like Rosa Parks. We can't sit in the back of the bus.'
Mmmm. The oppression is just the same, eh?
"Can't even be served at a Woolworth's lunch counter" = "The shamefulness felt from being homosexual"
Yeah, I'm sure that spoiled queer baby boomers have really struggled just like Rosa Parks....
Pitifully sick, sick, sick!
Makes chills go down my spine.
"Aging Gays Fuel Specialized Housing Market"
It's amazing that any of them live long enough to be "aging gays". They're the ones passing around AIDs to one another....they should be dying out pretty rapidly by now.
Let 'em be together. Do YOU want to be alone in your old age?
I am sorry, but this article is hysterically funny!
The private dining room named after Truman Capote?
The cabaret where '60s teen icon Lesley "It's My Party" Gore was scheduled to appear this weekend?
ROTFLOL! This sounds like a Saturday Night Live Skit!
He's getting all worked up and emotional over nothing. Just rumors. As long as both are competent, roommates can choose who they want.
How hard is it in this day and age to install a douche hose and a floor drain in every room of the house? Puh-leeze!
I wish there were a post-of-the day/week/month in this forum. I would nominate you for it...
*sigh*
And the problem with this is?
Edible carpet is expensive.
And do you know what it costs to put a back door in every room?
A Dr told his patient, "I have bad news and really bad news".
The patient responded, "please give me the really bad news first.".
The doc says, "you have AIDS"
AIDS? AIDS?.....oh my got, I've got AIDS????What am I gonna tell people?? what am I gonna do, Oh my God I'm a dead man!!!
Whats the bad news?
Doc said, "you have Alzheimers too"
Patient said, "ALzheimers?, phew! for a minute there I thought you were gonna tell me I've got AIDS.
Who's stopping them?
This won't amount to anything because most sodomites don't live to their old age.
If you really have a family of your own flesh and blood, do not betray them and yourself with such perversion, you won't be alone.
Homosexuals betray themselves and foresake the love of family. Nature does not care...
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