Santa fe gay retirement

Snowbirds Split Time Between Fort Lauderdale and Santa Fe

After over 30 years together, Randy Grant and Bruno Trambusti were looking for a locale for the next chapter of their lives. Having built a life together in Fort Lauderdale, the couple was looking for the perfect place to escape the hot, humid Florida summers. Now they’re members of a growing group of gay retirees who notify &#;The City Different&#; home.

In , after a hasty house hunt facilitated by Mark Banham, Randy and Bruno settled in a three bedroom, two-and-a-half bath, three-story townhome in the convenient Cielo Vista condominiums. Fast forward two years later and they’re here from June through October, returning to Florida for the winter months.

And although they bought without knowing many people in town, the couple has developed a large network of friends, especially within the city’s retired gay community. Their vibrant social life is centered around restaurants, dinner parties and get-togethers with their new friends and visitors.

What first brought you to Santa Fe?

Bruno: My sister traveled here 15 ye

Working Toward Equal Access in LGBT Senior Living

There are an estimated 3 million openly lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) seniors in the United States…and that number is growing as the Baby Boomers enter retirement. It’s a large market of prospective residents for the senior living industry. However, a study conducted by Erin Fitzgerald, MPA, and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force examined the compounding negative effect a lifetime’s worth of healthcare and economic discrimination has had on LGBT seniors–the end-result being fewer LGBT senior living options, either because of poor health or insufficient retirement savings. Some notable findings from the study:

  • Employment discrimination is experienced repeatedly by many LGBT people throughout their lives. Such discrimination reduces the odds that LGBT people and their families will receive the help of employer-provided health insurance.
  • Discrimination in the workplace can lead to financial insecurity, which can result in LGBT seniors skipping preventative healthcare and catching issues early when they are

    Gay Santa Fe

    It has been said about Santa Fe that “our streets are narrow, but our minds are not” and we couldn’t agree more. People always ask; where are the gay neighborhoods or the gay bars in Santa Fe?  A right melting pot, Santa Fe effortlessly blends the Anglo, Native American, International and Hispanic cultures. And while embracing its diversity, it is equally inclusive of its LGBT community.

    When researching destinations to travel or gathering information for a more permanent move, you want to know what Santa Fe offers me as a gay person. Will it cater to my diverse background? Or my special interest? Will I feel comfortable and accepted?  Is there a sense of community that will embrace me or neighborhoods where I can purchase a house and feel at home?

    A Tutorial to Gay Santa Fe

    This tutorial is designed to get you up and running with the basics to Gay Life in Santa Fe. Afterward, you’ll have a good adj as to the events, real estate and sense of inclusion that gay Santa Fe has to offer.

    1) Living in Santa Fe

    2) Gays Are Retiring And Buying Second Homes

    Aging gay population fuels recent housing market

    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 year-old Norris says crisply. “This is not going to transpire 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 arrive this weekend, everything about the 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 s and '70s reaches retirement age, about a dozen specialized sen