L.A. to subsidize 'gay' retirement home

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | Thursday, October 23, 2003

[JohnHuang2]

Los Angeles is set to become the first U.S. city to subsidize housing for homosexual seniors.

A few retirement facilities around the country are set apart for homosexuals, but the $18 million project is believed to be the first financially supported by a city, according to the Gay Financial Network, or GFN.

The 103-unit complex is a joint effort of the city of Los Angeles, the non-profit Gay & Lesbian Elder Housing Corp. and St. Louis-based developer McCormack Baron Salazar.

The plan is to break ground in the spring and open in 2005 on city-owned land a few blocks from the famed Hollywood Boulevard, GFN said.

Ivy Bottini, 77, board member of the Gay & Lesbian Elder Housing Corp., says the project will ensure there are "a whole bunch of older lesbian and gay people who will not have to live alone."

"Unless you have a social circle that's aging with you, it can be so hard," she told The Los Angeles Times. "There's a lot of isolation in growing old alone, without other people like yourself around you."

A survey conducted by Bottini's group two years ago found 72 percent of elderly 'gay' men and 37 percent of elderly lesbians said they had no one to care for them, according to GFN.

Brian M. Neimark, 34, the group's executive director, said younger homosexuals don't always pay enough attention to the fate of older people in their community,

"These are the people who fought so that I can walk down the street holding hands with someone," he told GFN. "But nobody's helping them. They get pushed to the fringe of the community and put out to pasture."

Unlike nearly every retirement home, seniors with same-sex partners will be able to share rooms at the new facility.

The homosexual rights group, Human Rights Campaign, says, however, more retirement communities of this kind are being planned nationwide as the current population of baby boomers begins to reach retirement. Existing communities are in Palmetto, Fla., Fort Myers, Fla., and Apache Junction, Ariz., GFN said. Another five are under development, two in San Francisco, two in New Mexico and one in North Carolina.

Officials estimate the greater Los Angeles area has 30,000 to 75,000 "gay," lesbian, bisexual and transgender senior citizens.

[JohnHuang2]

Thursday, October 23, 2003

Quote of the Day by RightWingAtheist

[narses]

Your tax money at work. The City of the Angels indeed!

[sourcery]

Exacting taxes from Peter to subsidize Paul's retirment is morally wrong. It's theft. Paul's sexual orientation has nothing to do with it--nor does Peter's.

[ambrose]

'gay' retirement home

Are you listening, Hollyweird? This seems like an excellent premise for a sitcom.

[At _War_With_Liberals]

"said younger homosexuals don't always pay enough attention to the fate of older people in their community, "

Narcissists usually don't.

[Az Joe]

Gay retirement home? Hmm, I want to have a gay street and a gay utility company too.

[FITZ]

In a way it's a good idea ---- the regular subsidized housing will be a lot safer for kids if the gays are segregated into their own place.

[onyx]

Homosexual seniors? A dying breed.

[FITZ]

Yeah--- that too --- there won't be all that many of them.

[sushiman]

" Officials estimate the greater Los Angeles area has 30,000 to 75,000 "gay," lesbian, bisexual and transgender senior citizens."

Huh ?????

[Caipirabob]

So when you've reached those "Golden Sunset Years" of 37-40, come on down to "Old Poof Plaza"...

[David Isaac]

"A survey conducted by Bottini's group two years ago found 72 percent of elderly 'gay' men and 37 percent of elderly lesbians said they had no one to care for them, according to GFN."


Supporters of the gay agenda, are some of the same people who believe that smokers can choose to not smoke. It is, after all, a matter of choice. For them smokers are responsible for the damage they do to themselves and those around them.

BUT, homosexuals are not to be held resposnsible for the choices they make. When they choose not to have a family, then society must make sure that they are not left alone.

The brazen hypocracy of these people is truly breathtaking.

[NYer]

Los Angeles is set to become the first U.S. city to subsidize housing for homosexual seniors.

Let's see that makes NY the state for the up and coming homosexuals, with that brand smacking new high school for gays ... AND ... CA the state where they can retire when the reach 35?.

[finnman69]

KY-Jelly, Prune juice and Ben Gay...what a pleasant combination.

[showme_the_Glory]

Gay retirement home? Hmm, I want to have a gay street and a gay utility company too.

And shop at Gay-Mart.

[mountaineer]

Gay high schools, gay retirement homes - and we all thought "separate but equal" was a dead issue. Now they all seem to want their own little ghetto of people "just like them."

[eastsider]

"Welcome to Rainbow Village!"

[John O]

A survey conducted by Bottini's group two years ago found 72 percent of elderly 'gay' men and 37 percent of elderly lesbians said they had no one to care for them, according to GFN.

Well duh. Cut yourself off from all that is good, deny yourself the joys of responsible parenthood, practice sexual perversion in a lifestyle that worships youth and grows on molestation of new recruits, and you wonder why you're alone.

It must be awfully lonely being an old sodomite. The young ones want nothing to do with you, most of the ones your age are already dead and you have no family that will claim you. And of course your long term monogomous partner (whom you first met 18 months ago) has moved on to his next long term monogomous relationship.

It almost seems just.

[scripter]

Thanks for the ping and a ping of my own.

AND ... CA the state where they can retire when they reach 35?.

Indeed. The severe health hazards of the homosexual lifestyle do considerably cut their lifespan.

[I got the rope]

It does indeed.