My life in a lesbian community: the joys and the pain

From the beginning of the story, the author shares her commitment to find and be a part of a community where lesbians live. As a member of Old Lesbians Organizing for Change (OLOC), she began exploring these options before she retired. This piece portrays a professional African American lesbian couple and their struggles to realize their dreams. They face a devastating disability of one partner immediately after they both relocate to another state, purchase and move into their dream home, and one partner retires. This is a true story of two lesbians who supported the goals of finding cooperative, caring space for other lesbians as they got old. Believing that all lesbians are sisters and care for each other, they move into a lesbian RV park, and purchase a park model sight unseen, believing in their hearts that a lesbian would not misrepresent herself or her home to another lesbian. Lesson learned; they are now back on track to develop a style suitable for their situation.