Gay Retirement Living - A Review

In Boston there's a big bruhaha about retirement centers for elderly gay men and lesbians. "It's discrimination" the gay-haters cry.

Of course, straight people are welcome in gay retirement centers, just like they are welcome at gay parties, gay clubs, gay restaurants, gay neighborhoods and pretty much anywhere else that is "gay".

While the idea of gay retirement centers is fairly new, I do have a first person (well, ok, second person) review. My roommate's (straight) grandmother moved into a gay retirement center in New Mexico this year. Her opinion?

It's beautiful and she always wanted to live in a place like that.

The food is just too fancy for her. The chef isn't from the southwest and doesn't know how to fix eggs. (We have to take that with a grain of salt. One of the reasons she went to the center is because her family was worried that she wasn't eating and had lost too much weight. She's starting to regain some.)

Everyone is nice... but she really didn't want to go to the seminar on lesbian empowerment.