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AlisonDonut · 04/01/2024 16:44

Can you imagine if someone proposed a 'super straight' housing scheme?

SirChenjins · 04/01/2024 16:42

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Oooft - tricky one. I mean, it could go either way really…

TheClogLady · 04/01/2024 16:39

If the LGBTQWTF hadn’t all been collapsed into one giant hole it might be easier to identify specific needs (eg there are some HIV positive gay men in their senior years who might benefit from on site viral load testing and there are some trans people who forget they transitioned and need support coming to terms with missing body parts, although that’s likely to affect people in higher dependency care than just supported housing).

I watched a lovely Netflix documentary about a senior lesbian couple who had been living together as ‘friends’ their whole adult lives and part of the process of moving into supported housing for them involved ‘coming out’ to family and finding a place where they would be free to be an open couple (iirc they even married after moving). It’s an absolute tear jerker of a film.

Manchester probably does have a higher than average proportion of LGB & T people so it likely makes sense in planning & social care terms.

OldCrone · 04/01/2024 16:39

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WallaceinAnderland · 04/01/2024 16:38

I thought this was an odd concept too OP. Inevitably it brings to mind segregation which is never a good look.

OldCrone · 04/01/2024 16:38

Is it actually legal to specify a certain group of people like that? Will there be another development for the rest of the population? As far as I know there are no EA2010 exemptions/exceptions for LGBTQ+ and there is no legitimate reason for separate accommodation like this.

And can anyone self-identify as LGBTQ+? Would a heterosexual couple be accepted if the man likes wearing his wife's underwear occasionally (which would make him T under the Stonewall definition)?

SirChenjins · 04/01/2024 16:38

Will GC lesbians be welcome, I wonder - or will that upset the Ts? Who takes priority?

Crouton19 · 04/01/2024 16:35

Maybe other retirement housing options don't offer the sorts of activities and co-living arrangements preferred by gay/lesbian couples? I do have some knowledge of the sector and this hasn't been mentioned as an issue in the industry but there is always room for variation.

Karensalright · 04/01/2024 16:22

i am just wondering what the specific and extra care needs could possibly mean that sets them aside from the rest of the human race.

The mind boggles.

SabrinaThwaite · 04/01/2024 16:09

More social and affordable housing being built is a good thing, isn’t it?

TheClogLady · 04/01/2024 16:02

Handy location for the Carlton Club!

Any particular reason you posted this in FWR?

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