Inside the UK’s first LGBT retirement home

🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ On the banks of London’s River Thames sits Britain’s first LGBT retirement community. In November 2021 the first residents ️‍of this pioneering scheme moved in. Residents Lydia and Min tell Patrick Strudwick why in order to feel safe they needed to spend their final chapter among their own community. Before Lydia, no lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender pensioner in the UK had ever stepped into a housing scheme designed to look after them. Those who have moved into mainstream facilities for the elderly have often found themselves surrounded by the very attitudes they spent a lifetime trying to escape. First shown on inews.co.uk on 26 March 2022 📰 Read the full piece on Britain’s first LGBT retirement home here: https://inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/b... 📰 Check out more of Patrick Strudwick’s special projects at iNews, including ‘A year on, LGBT Afghans are trapped in refugee camps, facing violence and sexual assault’ https://inews.co.uk/news/long-reads/l... ⬇️ Follow i for the best in political news and analysis. ⬇️ https://inews.co.uk/ Facebook:   / theipaper   Instagram:   / theipaper   Twitter:   / theipaper   TikTok:   / theipaper   (edited)