Odi Chigewe News Today

She was a teenager growing up in Queens when her mother kicked her out of the house for having a girlfriend. It was the 1960s, and being gay was "taboo", Diedra Nottingham remembered. With nowhere to turn, she wound up sleeping in parks and hallways.

Shunned when they were younger, older L.G.B.T.Q. adults have found a community at a senior home created for them by SAGE, a New York advocacy group.