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the project is designed to offer
a safe environment for queer
seniors, many of whom have
suffered discrimination particularly
as they look at other
options for affordable elder
housing.
Applicants who currently
live in NYCHA or are on the
waiting list for NYCHA or Section
8 housing will be prioritized,
and 30 percent of the
apartments are set aside for formerly
homeless people.
SAGE CEO Michael Adams
said the beginning of the
application process for Ingersoll
Senior Residences means
“we’re one step closer to realizing
a decades-long dream of
providing welcoming and affordable
housing for our LGBT
trailblaze rs.”
“It couldn’t be more timely,
as we mark the 50th anniversary
of Stonewall,” Adams
added in a May 28 written
statement provided to Gay City
News. “SAGE thanks Mayor
Bill de Blasio, Council Speaker
Corey Johnson, Council Majority
Leader Laurie Cumbo,
and Assemblymember Walter
Mosley for all of their support
for this important project. And
huge thanks to our Ingersoll
developer partner BFC Partners
and Don Capoccia.”
The building is the first
of two LGBTQ-inclusive senior
residential developments
in the city coming online that
are spearheaded by SAGE. The
By Carol Headley
for Brooklyn Paper
When Gay City News was
founded in 2002, New York
State did not yet have a gay
rights law and same-sex couples
could not get married anywhere
in America. In fact, almost
a third of the states still
outlawed sexual conduct by
gay people, which made criminals
of LGBTQ community
members.
Seventeen years later, the
community — here in the US
and worldwide — has made
huge strides. Same-sex couples
can now marry legally in
almost three dozen countries
and major international organizations,
such as the United
Nations, make LGBTQ rights a
critical focus of their work.
At every step along the
way, the editors and reporters
at Gay City News have been
there, telling the community’s
stories from on the ground. The
newspaper broke the news in
2006 that then-Senator Hillary
Clinton said she had “evolved”
and would support New York
State adopting marriage equality.
When Andrew Cuomo
signed marriage equality into
law in 2011, he gave his first two
interviews to Maureen Dowd at
the New York Times and Gay
City News’ founding editor-inchief
Paul Schindler.
2019 is a defining moment
in the history of the LGBTQ
community — nowhere more
than here in New York City. It
was June 28, 1969 when patrons
of the Stonewall Inn in
Greenwich Village fought back
against a police raid, the sort of
harassment typical of that era.
After several nights of disorder,
a new community had been
born. The events of that week
became the cornerstone of the
modern gay rights movement.
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other project, Crotona Senior
Residences at 771 Crotona Park
North in the Bronx, is scheduled
to open up in 2020 and
will have 82 units.
Bronx Borough President
Ruben Diaz, Jr., and out gay
Councilman Ritchie Torres
each allocated $600,000 toward
that development, which is not
yet accepting applications.
Applications to Ingersoll
Residences are only available
online and will be administered
a first come, first served basis
until 2,000 are submitted.
To apply to the Brooklyn residence,
visit sagenyc.org/nyc/
housingnyc .
BFC Partners
the same.
As New York marks the 50th
anniversary of Stonewall, the
city plays host as well to World-
Pride, an event that with an
opening and closing ceremony,
a human rights conference, and
dozens of other events planned,
will draw an estimated four million
out-of-town tourists. Gay
City News’ Pride issue, which
hits the streets on June 27, is the
must-have resource guide to the
events of Pride Weekend, which
will also, of course, include the
annual LGBTQ Pride March,
on June 30, along with another
human rights march earlier the
same day.
As it has been for almost two
decades, Gay City News will
be indispensible to coverage of
Stonewall 50 and WorldPride
events. In recognition of the
key role the newspaper plays
in the community, the city’s
largest LGBTQ political club,
the Stonewall Democrats, honored
Gay City News with a special
award at its Pride Kick-Off
Gala on May 23. City & State
New York is honoring editor
Schindler as one of the Pride
Power 100 in its June 24 issue;
in 2010, the newspaper also honored
him, as one of the Power
Matrix 13 Power Players in the
community.
Ben Smith, editor-in-chief
of Buzzfeed.com, writing of
the newspaper’s influence,
said, “Gay City New editor
Paul Schindler’s always strong
opinions make the paper kind
of a must-read even outside the
community.”
Emmett Findley, communications
manager at God’s Love
We Deliver, wrote, “We have
worked with Gay City News
for many years and we thank
them for their constant support
as an advertising partner,
and for raising awareness for
our urgent cause among our
neighbors.”
“The 50th anniversary of
Stonewall and WorldPride provide
a moment to reflect on and
celebrate the huge strides the
LGBTQ community has made,”
Schindler said. “And looking
at the work that remains to be
done reminds all of us at Gay
City News of the crucial mission
we continue to have.”
To be part of the June 27
Stonewall 50/ WorldPride
edition of Gay City News,
contact Ralph D’Onofrio at
718-260-2510 or rdonofrio@
schnepsmedia.com .
A community of millions, most
of whom had lived their lives
quietly, often in secret and in
fear, became visible and politically
engaged.
The world would never been
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