Kristina Lugo, Thomas Kingery, and two Avenidas Rainbow Collective members talk with Elizabeth Lorenz at Palo Alto Weekly about seeking safe spaces for LGBTQ older adults and meeting people where they are at.
Thomas Kingery, program manager at Avenidas Rainbow Collective: “The program aims to create opportunities to find, build and enhance relationships…(to) create chosen families.”
Avenidas ‘collective’ provides a safe space for older LGBTQ+ adults
A local gathering of older adults in the LGBTQ+ community is giving them a safe social space, with monthly “gayme” and movie nights at the Palo Alto senior center Avenidas, as well as many excursions to museums or other activities.
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