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-style homes on 5 of our 15 acres in N. Durham consist of 28 individual 1-story homes. The homes are ...
Jul 06, 2023•1 hr 20 min
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 the asset after it was built, providing long-term partnerships to help maintain the vision. My last...
Jun 22, 2023•1 hr 35 min
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 wore many entrepreneurial hats with business startups, including kite store owner, printmaker, websit...
Jun 08, 2023•45 min
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/plays-by-author/Tweed%20Harris Here are some facts on living in retirement in Pattaya, Thailand: Cos...
Jun 01, 2023•56 min
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-tech publishing, cable TV broadcasting, and a variety of editing and writing stints in banking, insuranc...
May 25, 2023•1 hr 13 min
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 Games 1990 and 1994. At the same time, John attended graduate school at Emory University and later work...
May 18, 2023•54 min
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 when he started the business with no capital, but built it into one of the largest LGBTQ Businesses in t...
May 11, 2023•1 hr
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 professional and home design consultant. He finally moved to Falmouth on Cape Cod in 2018 with his husband B...
May 04, 2023•1 hr 1 min
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 in Guadalajara, Mexico with his husband of 7 years, 3 (or 4) dogs, 4 birds, various fish, and a turtle...
Apr 27, 2023•1 hr 30 min
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 exhibited at the NY Historical Society in NYC in 1998. In 1999, he launched the Fading Ad Campaign website ...
Apr 20, 2023•1 hr 4 min
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 Snow during the winter months and a pro mountain biker in the off-season. Previous to Mount Snow, Dave wa...
Apr 13, 2023•1 hr 2 min
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 its early days. Through luck and timing, they were able to buy a cottage on the water on Vashon Island (in 1989) and ...
Apr 06, 2023•1 hr 14 min
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 years. Mark Camp - website is www.markcamp.com , email is mark@markcamp.com , 404-786-5400 Mark Camp - Ass...
Mar 30, 2023•1 hr 12 min
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 the local USAF base. He sponsored his partner for a Green Card as soon as it was legal to marry. That took ...
Mar 23, 2023•1 hr 36 min
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 met a man and moved in with him in Washington DC. In January 2005, they came to a conference in Santa...
Mar 16, 2023•1 hr 16 min
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 hospital settings and spent his last 5 years managing an HIV specialty pharmacy at Walgreens. Now that he is re...
Mar 09, 2023•1 hr 8 min
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 Coordinator for Alcon Industries in Fort Worth. Albert also was a former Subway Sandwiches franchisee in...
Mar 02, 2023•1 hr 28 min
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 was to find and move to a place with sunny weather year-round and near the ocean. They never took Their...
Feb 23, 2023•1 hr 22 min
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 after retiring in 2016, he obtained his Realtor license and joined Long Realty, the largest brokerage...
Feb 16, 2023•1 hr 10 min
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 took a position at Reed College where he started as the assistant director of residence life, and moved up to the posit...
Feb 09, 2023•1 hr 23 min
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 tomorrow is my last day.” Rod was born and raised in Greenville, South Carolina. After graduating from co...
Feb 02, 2023•1 hr 35 min
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 Jacksonville, Florida since 1976. Currently living in a restored Victorian farmhouse, built in 1878. Founder of t...
Jan 26, 2023•1 hr 3 min
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 president of the community beach association on the Jersey Shore where he and his husband lived until the...
Jan 19, 2023•1 hr 27 min
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 Philology as he has native-level fluency in several languages acquired during his early academia in S...
Jan 05, 2023•1 hr 10 min
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 demise, Ric thought he was "done" with the travel industry and was employed with a Fortune 500 company in M...
Dec 24, 2022•54 min
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 assistant editor and sound editor on a dozen or so feature films before landing a job in motion picture...
Nov 28, 2022•1 hr 25 min
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 its weather and infrastructure. They did an exploratory trip to Barcelona and liked it but didn't fall ...
Nov 24, 2022•1 hr 33 min
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 piece of beachfront land and opened a B&B starting with 1 room in 2006. Today, they have 25 rooms, wit...
Nov 16, 2022•1 hr 19 min
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 invited on a random road trip to Austin, Texas. One year later he decided to pack what he could into his c...
Nov 09, 2022•1 hr 2 min
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 decided to move to Ajijic in the Lake Chapala area of Mexico, where the climate is just about perfect...
Nov 04, 2022•1 hr 31 min
