While the Bay Area is known worldwide for its place in LGBTQ history, the popularity of one Walnut Creek retirement home could come as a surprise.
About 3 million LGBTQ adults over the age of 50 currently live in the U.S. But as they grow older, they're having a hard time finding retirement communities that feel welcoming. Ashowed 82% of LGBTQ seniors don't feel like they have the social supports they need as they get older.
"It is a deeper comfort level here that I ever expected," Kandel said."It just has a totally different vibe here." "Coming to Rossmoor was such a surprised because we planted ourselves from New York and we found an instant community," Wong said. With nearly 10-thousand residents, Roosmoor is a city within a city, with its own newspaper, two golf courses and about 200 clubs, three of them that carter to both gay and lesbians residents.first moved to Rossmoor 14 years ago, there few gay people living there. But over the years, the community grew mostly by word of mouth. These days his organization has 260 members.
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