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News of a planned retirement community for GLBT people has renewed talk about segregation and assimilation. Will a GLBT retirement village create another gay ghetto?
According to Dr Chris Chamberlain, Director of the Centre for Applied Research at RMIT University, the answer is no.
Chamberlain, who is the co-author of a 2002 ALSO Foundation report exploring the needs of older gay, lesbian and transgender people, says that accommodation is established for people from particular ethnic groups all the time.