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A WELCOMING PLACE FOR GAY RETIREMENT: Historic hotel becomes Barbary Lane, based on popular 'Tales of the City' series
Judy Richter, San Francisco Chronicle, June 17, 2007
Inspired by "Tales of the City" author Armistead Maupin, a new gay-friendly senior community called Barbary Lane is emerging with an art deco splash at Oakland's historic Lake Merritt Hotel. It will be one of the country's first independent living facilities for LGBT seniors and the first of its kind in the Bay Area.
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Silvering bard by the bay
By Josh Getlin, Los Angeles Times, June 15, 2007
For 30 years, novelist Armistead Maupin has led readers on a tour of his life. Now he's writing about aging, love and his dream of community. Thirty years later, the dream that Maupin wrote about — a nurturing seniors community in the Bay Area for people of all sexual persuasions — is becoming a reality. This fall, the Barbary Lane Communities for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender seniors will open on Lake Merritt in Oakland.
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LGBT seniors face the challenge of aging gracefully
by Charlie Anders, San Francisco Bay Times, June 2007
Retired LGBTs often face unique difficulties, facing more discrimination from senior organizations, nursing homes, and health care providers. Local organizations, however, are stepping up to provide the kind of help non-LGBT seniors might not get from their nuclear families or the gay community at large.
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Senior housing for gays announced in Oakland
By Quynh Tran, Contra Costa Times, February 27, 2007
Inspired by Armistead Maupin's landmark series "Tales of the City," Oakland's Barbary Lane will become the first of its kind in the country to offer a senior residential community for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered individuals and couples.
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Gay seniors to get a place of their own: Housing units target underserved community of older homosexuals
By Angela Hill, Oakland Tribune, February 28, 2007
OAKLAND — The nation is getting older, and gays are going gray along with everybody else... In response to this need, a gay and lesbian development and management team is transforming the historic Lake Merritt Hotel on Madison Street in downtown Oakland into one of the country's first urban independent-living residences to actively welcome the LBGT community. Straight seniors are welcome, too. The launch of the Barbary Lane project — so named after the diverse fictional community of Barbary Lane in author Armistead Maupin's "Tales of the City" novels — was announced at a news conference Tuesday at the hotel. Maupin himself attended the event, and a large rainbow flag was draped in the hotel's big plate-glass window overlooking Lake Merritt.
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Golden Gays
Alex Gronke, Novo Metro, February 27, 2007
Armistead Maupin, author Armistead Maupin visited downtown Oakland Tuesday morning to serve as the celebrity spokesman for California’s first LGBT old folks home. Growing old is no fun, but as the author of “Tales of the City” put it, growing old surrounded by Bush/Cheney voters might be even worse. Enter Barbary Lane Communities to the rescue.
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Oakland LGBT senior housing project plans fall opening
Bay Area Reporter, San Francisco, CA, USA, March 1, 2007
In the fall, Oakland's historic Lake Merritt Hotel will become Barbary Lane, Armistead Maupin's famed community from Tales of the City.
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Senior housing for gays announced in Oakland
San Jose Mercury News, February 27, 2007
Inspired by Armistead Maupin's landmark series "Tales of the City," Oakland's Barbary Lane will become the first of its kind in the country to offer a senior residential community for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered individuals and couples.
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Landmark Hotel to Become State’s First Gay Friendly Senior Housing
KCBS Radio, February 28, 2007
The transformed Lake Merritt Hotel, renamed Barbary Lane, will cater to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender senior citizens. The developers hope to open five more Barbary Lanes in other cities.
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