How to Find Out About Gay and Lesbian Retirement Communities

If you're looking for a retirement community today, your options are pretty much limited to the same communities straights go to as well as a couple just for gays and lesbians, but many gay and lesbian retirement communities are in the planning stages. Here's how to locate some of the groups that are working to give gays and lesbians a place to call their own in their later years.

Things You'll Need

• Internet Access

Instructions

1. Contact the folks at the Palms of Manasota (palmsofmanasota.com) in Florida to get your quest off to a good start. The community is one of only a few gay and lesbian retirement communities that are up and running.

2. Stay in Florida and you'll find a lesbian retirement community that is also up and running. The Resort on Carefree Boulevard (resortoncb.com) offers opportunities for you to visit for a while, too.

3. Get in contact with the folks at Our Town Villages (ourtownvillages.com). They're planning a gay and lesbian retirement community and are doing a market survey that you can sign up to participate in at their Web site.

4. Keep in touch with the Gay and Lesbian Association of Retiring Persons (gaylesbianretiring.org).

Tips & Warnings

• Lots more resources for older gays and lesbians, including other retirement options, can be found in the Seniors section of the gay search engine and directory Rainbow Query (www.rainbowquery.com).

• Find out how to locate other resources for older gay men and older lesbians by reading Related eHows.