Post by account_disabled on Mar 12, 2024 4:56:16 GMT -5
With the aim of creating a safe space for older adults in the LGBT community, 86-year-old Samantha Flores decided to open this home called Fundación Vida Alegre Laetus Vitae AC
She affirms that the LGBT community has been so discriminated against and that this prompted her to open this space that offers activities such as cinema club, meditation, psychological care, emotional support, spiritual support, as well as medical assistance.
It is a space located within France Mobile Number List Mexico City, right at number 184 B on Xola Avenue, from where you can see a rainbow-colored flag flying.
This place serves as a meeting place for older adults belonging to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual, transgender and intersex community.
Although not all of them actually belong to the community, Samantha declared for the electronic media that this is the first space for LGBTTI older adults in Latin America.
LGBT house for older adults in CDMX
Meetings at Laetus Vitae are on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. There they do not talk about their youthful memories and they receive free support.
«We serve as a community center, because we create community and we are creating links between the community and those who live around it. This has been the most beautiful thing about the project,” Samantha revealed to Animal Político.
Vincent C. Shwahn, Samantha's father, indicated that one of the challenges was being able to approach the neighbors without them being prejudiced by their sexual preferences and, above all, for this house to serve as a meeting place for members of the LGBTTI community.
«People who perhaps would never give themselves the opportunity to meet a trans, gay or lesbian person, can come, they can meet and realize that nothing happens. "It is important to break those gaps and create communication between these communities."
The situation of gay seniors is invisible, no one knows we exist. The few friends I know have a solitary life, even if they live with their families they are excluded. “When I get home and put the key in the lock I say how happy I am now in my house, I am already in my home and I feel protected, but many older adults have families but they are unprotected and the gay older adult is invisible, "He doesn't have any help, he's alone."
LGBT house for older adults in CDMX
She hopes that over time more LGBT older adults will arrive, especially transsexuals, transgenders and transvestites.
“Everything is free and it is so that older adults in the LGBT community do not feel alone. We have suffered so much rejection that we cannot do the same. “We have to be inclusive.”
Laetus Vitae welcomes adults aged 60 and over and currently has 2 guests but the space can accommodate up to ten people. Although good dissemination work has been done, more support is still needed for the project to continue growing.
She affirms that the LGBT community has been so discriminated against and that this prompted her to open this space that offers activities such as cinema club, meditation, psychological care, emotional support, spiritual support, as well as medical assistance.
It is a space located within France Mobile Number List Mexico City, right at number 184 B on Xola Avenue, from where you can see a rainbow-colored flag flying.
This place serves as a meeting place for older adults belonging to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual, transgender and intersex community.
Although not all of them actually belong to the community, Samantha declared for the electronic media that this is the first space for LGBTTI older adults in Latin America.
LGBT house for older adults in CDMX
Meetings at Laetus Vitae are on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. There they do not talk about their youthful memories and they receive free support.
«We serve as a community center, because we create community and we are creating links between the community and those who live around it. This has been the most beautiful thing about the project,” Samantha revealed to Animal Político.
Vincent C. Shwahn, Samantha's father, indicated that one of the challenges was being able to approach the neighbors without them being prejudiced by their sexual preferences and, above all, for this house to serve as a meeting place for members of the LGBTTI community.
«People who perhaps would never give themselves the opportunity to meet a trans, gay or lesbian person, can come, they can meet and realize that nothing happens. "It is important to break those gaps and create communication between these communities."
The situation of gay seniors is invisible, no one knows we exist. The few friends I know have a solitary life, even if they live with their families they are excluded. “When I get home and put the key in the lock I say how happy I am now in my house, I am already in my home and I feel protected, but many older adults have families but they are unprotected and the gay older adult is invisible, "He doesn't have any help, he's alone."
LGBT house for older adults in CDMX
She hopes that over time more LGBT older adults will arrive, especially transsexuals, transgenders and transvestites.
“Everything is free and it is so that older adults in the LGBT community do not feel alone. We have suffered so much rejection that we cannot do the same. “We have to be inclusive.”
Laetus Vitae welcomes adults aged 60 and over and currently has 2 guests but the space can accommodate up to ten people. Although good dissemination work has been done, more support is still needed for the project to continue growing.