Where Do Gays Retire Podcast

Brian and Terry have been together for over 26 years. They officially married on their 9-year anniversary in Canada, before it was broadly legal in the US.  They grew up in the same town in a suburb of Dayton, Ohio. They met at a data/technology company where they moved up in the ranks and spent most of their careers. Their shared retirement goal since almost the beginning of their relationship wa...

From personal interest to the profession – He relocated to the Tucson Arizona area with his husband during the summer of 2014. I know you’re thinking – “you moved during the summer?” He did and never looked back. They both grew up in southeast Pennsylvania and had a timeline in mind to pick up and move even though they knew no one in Tucson. Jeff always had a personal interest in real estate and a...

Kevin Donegan grew up in rural Montana and entered the Peace Corps after finishing graduate school in 1987, where he caught the "travel bug."    Kevin served in Belize from 1987 to 1989 and then returned to the US and relocated to Portland, Oregon.   He initially worked as a family counselor for a non-profit with runaway and homeless adolescents for a little over a year.   In 1990, he to...

Jim was born and raised in Geneva, New York.  After graduating from college, he moved to Washington DC where he worked with the Federal Government as an architect.  He took early retirement from the Department of Justice in 2003. When his retirement was approved, he sent a message to the staff that said “There is a rumor going around that I’m retiring. I want you all to know that it’s true and tom...

Richard A. Ceriello was a Speech/Language Pathologist from 1976 to 2016.  Now an innkeeper at a historic BnB.  He was raised in NYC, born in Brooklyn, and raised in Queens.  Education: Mercy College, in Dobbs Ferry, N.Y; graduate school at Long Island University, C. W. Post College, internship at North Shore University Hospital, a teaching hospital of Cornell University.   He is living in Jacksonv...

Randall Wilcox (Randy) holds a degree in secondary education from Heidelberg University and an MLS degree from Kent State University. In his career as a professional law librarian, he worked in positions in academic law firms, and corporate law libraries.  Born and raised in Ohio, he moved to the east coast with his now-husband in 1997. Retired in January 2014, he served as vice president and pres...

Toby de Lys is a native New Yorker, who after residing in various major countries around the world –along with his spouse decided that Colombia was the best nation in which to live in or the 21st Century. Graduate and post-graduate studies included Architecture (at the Princeton School of Architecture), Theoretical Physics, Bio-Engineering, Art, Art History, Music, Music History, Philosophy, and P...

Ric Irick first realized his dream to travel the world as a 19-year-old Navy enlistee.  After serving the country, he sought employment in the travel industry. For nearly 10 years he worked with Pan American World Airways in the Reservations department which offered a flexible schedule and allowed completion of a BA and then an MBA, part-time, at George Washington University. After Pan Am's d...

Reid Martin was born and raised in Woodland Hills, California, a suburb of Los Angeles located in the San Fernando Valley.  After graduating from California State University, Northridge with a B.A. in Radio, Television, & Film, Reid got his start in the entertainment industry working as an apprentice editor on the Tom Hanks comedy, Bachelor Party. For the next several years, he worked as an as...

They wanted a change of lifestyle.  They were living in the SF Bay Area and were both tired of the high cost of living, the lack of vacation time and not being able to shake the feeling that they simply could not afford to retire there.  He is Italian by birth so at first they wanted to move to Italy but they decided not to in order to give them both a new experience.  They chose Spain because of...

Colin's journey from the big cities and gay communities of Vancouver and Toronto started when he attended a gay group adventure tour in Hawaii.  The experience was life-changing and he knew that he wanted his current path of a career in advertising and marketing to take a drastic change.  This quest led him to discover the remote area of the Southern Caribbean of Costa Rica, where he bought a...

Andrew Rudin was born and raised in the suburbs of Jacksonville, Florida.  He moved to Tallahassee in 1998 to attend Florida State University and graduated with a degree in International Relations & Geography.  Soon after he landed a job creating maps for the State of Florida’s Geological Survey to help protect the state’s aquifers.  In 2003, after 5 years in quaint Tallahassee, Andrew was inv...

Steve Cross was born and raised in Northern Ireland but knew from his early teens he would not stay there due to the oppression of the gay community at the time.  He left to see the world on cruise ships in 1992 and discovered Puerto Vallarta by visiting the ports. In 2004 he left the ships and settled in Puerto Vallarta and began to sell real estate there. In 2008 he and his now-deceased husband...

Randy was a military brat, so he lived all over the world. He lived in the Philippines, Italy, Spain, Portugal, California, and Hawaii where his late father was from. Which means he had exposure to different countries and cultures all his life. When they were living in Italy, Randy’s father went to culinary school and became a pastry chef. He worked independently and we continued to travel around...

Jim Nixon is the  Director of the St Pete Service Center and LGBTQ Liaison City of St. Petersburg, FL. He serves dual roles as Director of the St Pete Service Center and LGBTQ Liaison. As Director of the St Pete Service Center, he is responsible for the daily operation and strategic implementation of the St Pete Service Center, which processes citizen requests for assistance with services and dist...

Dan Kelley McBride and Timm McBride have been together since 2004. Timm says he met Dan at a dance in Portland OR, and they kept bumping into each other until they were BOTH single and available. They’ve been together ever since. For better and for worse. While living in Portland, OR, they married in Victoria BC in 2005, because, as Dan says, “We had to do it in a CIVILIZED” country.” In 2013 afte...

Randy Lapp is the Director of Corporate HR and Corporate Communications for Metals USA, which has its corporate headquarters in Fort Lauderdale, FL.  Randy has lived in Wilton Manors and Oakland Park, (Fort Lauderdale area) since April 2013, after relocating from Chicago IL.  Fort Lauderdale continues to be an attractive place to live/work/retire, with a high quality of life.  Aaron Burke is origi...

Robyn Meltzer is a Human Resources Executive with extensive experience in diversified businesses and cultures. Her expertise is in the areas of people strategies, talent management, organization assessments, facilitation, curriculum development, and career coaching. She currently has her own practice providing Human Resource consultations and training to all levels of employees. Prior to starting...

Dave Hughes is a leading authority on retirement lifestyle planning. He has written over 100 articles about retirement lifestyle planning for his website, RetireFabulously.com , and has published three books: Design Your Dream Retirement, Smooth Sailing into Retirement , and The Quest for Retirement Utopia . From 2016-2017, Dave was a regular contributor to U.S. News’ On Retirement blog. In 2017,...

Phoenix is the capital of the southwestern U.S. state of Arizona. Known for its year-round sun and warm temperatures, it anchors a sprawling, multicity metropolitan area known as the Valley of the Sun. It's known for high-end spa resorts, Jack Nicklaus–designed golf courses, and vibrant nightclubs. Other highlights include the Desert Botanical Garden, displaying cacti and numerous native plan...

Brent Hartinger and Michael Jensen are a longtime couple who are both also writers. Brent is a screenwriter and novelist who wrote the gay teen classic, Geography Club, and Michael is a novelist and editor who co-founded the gay entertainment website After Elton, which was later sold to Viacom. In 2016, the night Donald Trump was elected, Brent and Michael decided to sell their house and travel th...

Kevin was born and raised in a small town in Upstate New York around 40 miles outside Syracuse. Like many Americans, Kevin is the grandson of European Immigrants. (Italian on his mother’s side/Irish on his dad's side) He attended college at the State University of New York in Geneseo (near Rochester) and received a Bachelor’s Degree in Sociology. During his junior year, Kevin applied to parti...

Porto, Portuguese Oporto, city and port, northern Portugal. The city lies along the Douro River, 2 miles (3 km) from the river’s mouth on the Atlantic Ocean and 175 miles (280 km) north of Lisbon. World-famous for its port wine, Porto is Portugal’s second-largest city and is the commercial and industrial center of the zone north of the Mondego River. The historic center of Porto was designated a U...

Brian Longstreth is a moderator of our popular Facebook community called Where Do Gays Retire?  Brian is a rare native Floridian, born in Bradenton in 1961. He moved to Tampa in 1983 and found a home in St. Petersburg in 1984. His early career in restaurant and retail lead to him becoming a Realtor in 1992 and getting very involved in the neighborhoods of St. Petersburg. He founded Your Neighborho...

 During his career, he lived in the Washington, D.C. metro area and also worked in San Diego, CA for 17+ years.  He met his husband in San Diego.  They have been together for 25 years and married since 2013. They bought their home in Spain in January 2017.  He is a Spanish resident and lives here full-time. Steve tells the audience what it's like to live in Malaga, Spain.  He covers topics su...