Where Do Gays Retire Podcast

Jim Meadows, MSW, is the executive director of New Orleans Advocates for LGBTQ+ Elders (NOAGE).  In addition to his work with NOAGE, he is the secretary for the LGBT Archives Project of Louisiana, and he serves on the board of directors for A Home Among Friends, which aims to provide affordable housing to low-income LGBT seniors in New Orleans. He is vice president of the New Orleans Steamboat Clu...

Mark McNease is the author of 13 novels, including the Kyle Callahan Mysteries, the Maggie Dahl Mysteries, the Marshall James Thrillers, and several stand-alone books. He has had six plays produced, the last one being at New Jersey Repertory Company. He is the founder and editor of LGBTSR.com, a website dedicated to LGBTQ people over 50 and our friends that he launched 11 years ago. He is a two-ti...

Zac Campbell: My name is Zac Campbell. I’m a chef, a wedding and event planner, a former interior designer, and a lover of living life out loud. I’ve produced upward of 300 weddings and events all over the world.  I’ve had the privilege to cook for Rock Stars, Royals, and Regular Joes and Janes. I’ve lived life with passion. I’ve hit hard times and I’ve celebrated the good times. I’ve been engaged...

Paul Iarrobino is a community activist, speaker, author and documentarian with over three decades of gerontology experience. He implemented virtual gatherings for older adults to safely connect during the pandemic to reduce isolation and increase social connectivity. This experience led to Paul’s first book, COVIDOLOGY: Sharing Life Lessons from Behind the Mask . His current book Defining Moments...

Greg Wine lives with his husband Robert Zargaryan in Sacramento, California. They have been together for 26 years after meeting at the Los Angeles Gay Rodeo.    They moved to Sacramento 16 years ago from Los Angeles where Greg was a restaurant manager and a dietitian.    Greg is now a retired clinical dietitian from UC Davis Medical Center, where he was promoting healthy nutrition and preventing m...

Bob Klein  Originally from Philadelphia, Bob spent time growing up in Mexico and Florida, where he completed a Master’s Degree in Business Administration. Bob’s professional background includes a career working in grant administration for both the New Mexico State Supreme Court and the Cochise County, AZ Victim Witness Program. He has been involved in real estate for many years, starting off by wo...

Keith Coleman - 1984 - Worked at United Airlines, Los Angeles, CA as a Reservation Specialist 1985 - Worked as a flight attendant for United Airlines, Chicago, IL, Los Angeles CA, San Francisco, CA, Miami, FL, and London, UK              Moved to Cathedral City, California 1989 - Worked at College of the Desert. Palm Desert, CA as Adjunct faculty (Theatre Arts) 1991 - Moved to London, UK 1992 - Mo...

Stephen Keiley - 61 years old. I was born and raised in New York City (Forest Hills, Queens). I grew up in the ’70s and ’80s in NYC during the peak of the AIDS crisis. This was a very scary time, but the gay community rallied together to remove the stigma that was associated with HIV/AIDS.  After high school, I began working in the airline industry as a customer service representative. This led me...

Hello, my name is Margaret Roesch and I have been lucky enough to share the past 27 years with my wife, Pat McAulay. Pat moved to Durham from Flint, MI and I am a transplant from West Lafayette, IN. We met in Durham and chose to create our 55+, LGBTQ+, cohousing community here in Durham, a very Gay-friendly city in the liberal part of NC called The Triangle (Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill). Our condo-...

Kevin Pollock I am originally from NY but lived the last 20 or so years in the Phoenix area, with stops in VA and FL in between. The vast majority of my career was based in land development and real estate management. The firm I worked for assisted developers in building large-scale master-planned communities, golf course communities, etc. Aside from consulting with the developers, we also managed...

Elizabeth Gabriel Brooke During graduate school in 1974, she went to Provincetown on a whim for New Year’s. It turned into a wild and crazy weekend that included Grace Jones in concert.   Provincetown spoke to her then as it continues to do every day. She was determined to return for the summer, which she did. Since that time, she has never left except to travel. Over the next several decades, she...

Tweed Harris is a 90-year-old gay male in Pattaya, Thailand. He is a retired actor/singer/teacher. Now a novelist and playwright. Born in London UK, moved to Australia when he was 16 years old. Autobiography published 2002. Now living in Thailand with his Thai husband. Links to Tweed Harris: https://www.amazon.com/Tweed-Harris/e/B004NZPGNY%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share https://www.stageplays.com/...

Mick Lockey, who retired in 2017 lives in San Miguel de Allende, located in the central highlands of Mexico, about three and half hours north of Mexico City, in the state of Guanajuato. The city sits on a bed of rose quartz, and the local legend is that this affords San Miguel “magical” qualities.    Mick is from the San Francisco Bay Area—first San Francisco, then Oakland--having worked in high-t...

Growing up in rural Kentucky, John Brock comes from a long line of unsuccessful farmers. As a young man, he fell in love with his best friend (a handsome young man) and quickly realized that Kentucky was not a safe place, so he moved to New York.  After five years, John moved to Atlanta for the vibrant gay community. John served as the commissioner of Hotlanta Volleyball and participated in Gay Ga...

Greg Casella grew up in Chicago and moved to San Jose, CA (Silicon Valley) when he was 25 years old.  Working in the Tech industry for a few years his dream was always to open a restaurant, having worked in restaurants growing up from the age of 13!   In 1992 he started an Off-Premise Catering business in Silicon Valley, the next best thing to having a restaurant.  He was actually on unemployment...

Tom was born in 1961 in West Germany and spent his early formative years on the good side of the Iron Curtain. In 1969 his family moved to the USA where they spent six years in suburban New York and then relocated to southwestern New Hampshire. In 1991 he moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts in search of a more welcoming, more accepting setting and spent 28 happy years there as a real estate professi...

Matthew Prutsman Matthew worked in operations in various university libraries in Virginia and California from 2000 until 2022. Now he runs 2 Airbnbs in Guadalajara, Mexico with his husband. He was born and raised in rural Virginia, moved to California in 2006, and then to Mexico in 2020. He attended the University of Virginia where he received a degree in urban planning.  Matthew currently lives i...

Frank Jump, a retired NYC technology teacher, is also the author and photographer of the Fading Ads of NYC published in 2011 by the History Press.  His book documents ghost signage through the lens of an artist living with HIV/AIDS. It has become a metaphor of survival for Jump since, like himself, many of these ads have long outlived their expected life span.    Twenty-four of his images were exh...

Scott and Dave met in May 1991 while Scott was at Mount Snow in Vermont training for a triathlon and Dave was directing the Mountain Bike School there.    Scott was living in NYC at the time and Dave is from Vermont. Scott had an early career in marketing & advertising, was running a mail order catalog business and was an amateur competitive triathlete, Dave was a pro ski patroller at Mount Sn...

Tom Jewell and Bruce Woolverton met as college kids in 1975, then lived on Manhattan's upper west side from '77 to '84, when they moved to Seattle.  Bruce worked in the telecom industry initially, then in business development for startups.  Bruce always worked as a fundraiser in some capacity, at various nonprofits such as The Nature Conservancy and the Northwest AIDS Foundation in...

Mark is originally from Birmingham, AL.  Mark moved to Atlanta in 1988 and has been here for 35 years.  Mark began his real estate career 22 years ago and has helped numerous buyers and sellers in the metro-Atlanta area.  Mark focuses his sales mostly in the inside perimeter area where a large percentage of the gay population lives.   Mark lives with his partner, Cruse, and have been together 25 y...

Richard Jasicki, 63 years young, he retired at the age of 62. Married to Charles Naldrett since it was legal to do so in 2014. They have been together for 22 years (that's about 122 in gay years lol). He was born on a USAF base in the UK to an English mom from London and an American dad from Milwaukee, WI. At the ripe age of 6 months they moved to Madison, WI where his dad was stationed at th...

Perry was born and raised in a small town in Iowa. According to his dad, the population was 600, if you count the dogs and cats.  He received two degrees (Pharmacy and Biology) from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. Upon graduation, he moved to Dallas, to begin his career as a Pharmacist. After 3 years, he moved He earned a Master’s Degree MAS in Information Technology Management. In 1999, he...

Daniel Rainey is a retired pharmacist. He is 53 years old and has been living in Italy since his retirement in February 2022. He graduated from the University of South Carolina with a Bachelor's degree in science in 1991, and then went on to receive a Doctorate in Pharmacy from Mercer school of pharmacy four years later.  During his 30 years as a pharmacist, he worked in both retail and hospi...

Ozark Diner and Bed & Breakfast  Albert Sotelo and  Chef Kevin W. Mize Owner/Operators  Albert, 59 years old, and Kevin, 56 years old, have been together for 19 years and married for 12 years.  They moved to Baguio City, Philippines eight years ago as a prelude to retirement.  Albert was a former Operations Specialist with American Airlines in Dallas, while Kevin was a former Clinical Research...