Gay community center launches program for senior citizens
Ray Leuenberger is not comfortable visiting most senior centers or talking about his partner of 10 years while there. But Cleveland's newest senior center is different. The senior center convenes Wednesdays and Fridays at the Lesbian Gay Community Center on Detroit Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio. Its full name is the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Senior Center. Ohio has nothing else like it, said Ron Hill, executive director of the Western Reserve Area Agency on Aging, which oversees senior services in five Northeast Ohio counties. "This is a place where we can go, and it gives us a chance to be with other people who are gay and lesbian," says Leuenberger, 71. "We weren't getting out into the community before."
Cleveland Plain Dealer
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