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Gay rights activist Harvey Milk to receive stepped memorial in San Francisco’s Castro.

November 5, 2017 compassq Comments Off

The work of late gay rights activist and politician Harvey Milk will be celebrated in San Francisco’s famous Castro District with a large set of ramping steps, designed by US architecture firm Perkins Eastman. The stepped memorial will be built on Harvey Milk Plaza, an open square named to commemorate of Milk and his work in the 1970s as an activist for LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer) rights in the city. Read the full article HERE. #lgbt #gay #lesbian #bisexual #transgender #homophobia #equality

Breaking ground on LGBT senior housing in San Francisco.

October 21, 2017 compassq Comments Off

Work has begun on a new building at 75-95 Laguna St. (at Hermann) that will create 78 units of affordable housing for low-income LGBT seniors. The building, called The Openhouse Community, will rise next to 55 Laguna, where Bob Ross LGBT Senior Center already provides 40 units of housing for LGBT seniors. #lgbt #gay #lesbian #bisexual #transgender #homophobia #Equality READ MORE HERE: http://hoodline.com/2017/10/new-lgbt-senior-housing-project-breaks-ground-on-laguna-st

LGBT affordable housing coming to Islip, New York.

October 17, 2017 compassq Comments Off

Islip Town Board officials have approved plans for an affordable housing complex in Bay Shore aimed at senior citizens who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender and their allies. Board members voted in favor of the project at their Sept. 25 meeting… READ MORE ABOUT THIS STORY HERE: https://www.newsday.com/long-island/suffolk/islip-town-board-approves-1st-apartments-aimed-at-lgbt-seniors-1.14500350

LGBT property search portal launched by LGBT Capital.

October 16, 2017 compassq Comments Off

LGBT Capital, the Hong Kong- and UK-based investment specialist dedicated to serving the specialist needs of lesbian, gay, bi- and trans-sexual individuals, today unveiled what it says is the first-ever global property search portal for the international LGBT community.

There goes the gayborhood.

October 6, 2017 compassq Comments Off

I remember my first gay bar. I was 20, newly single, and frustrated. I knew only a handful of gay people at the University of Maryland, where I was a senior, but one night a guy in my campus a cappella group invited me out to Apex, a club near Dupont Circle. Standing at the threshold of the bar, watching the cute boys dance under the strobe lights, I was terrified.

Fair housing bill that protects LGBT people now waits for Congress to act.

September 23, 2017 compassq Comments Off

The facts are striking: In 28 states, it is perfectly legal to deny someone housing simply because of their sexual orientation and/or gender identity; in 2013, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) found same-sex couples faced“adverse treatment” in their search for housing—a finding echoed the following year in a study conducted by Services & Advocacy for GLBT Elders (SAGE) and the Equal Rights Center, which found a staggering 48% of LGBT individuals faced “adverse differential treatment” in their search for housing.

LGBT senior housing coming to Seattle.

September 23, 2017 compassq Comments Off

Andy Post spent his summer interviewing more than 100 LGBTQ seniors and advocates, helping to create the framework for Capitol Hill Housing’s latest development project. CHH is planning to construct a seven-story LGBTQ-affirming senior housing complex in the parking lot next to its Helen V Apartments at 14th Avenue and East Union Street.