These LGBT seniors are building a shared community.

Members of the Village Hearth co-housing community toast their loan closing, which will help the community open its first phase of homes by next spring. (Courtesy Pat McAulay)

In 2007, after 30 years in the city, Christopher Ross and Allan Keech left New York and moved to a 58-acre property outside the small town of South Boston, Virginia, near the border with North Carolina. Ross, a priest in the Independent…