At 5.30pm precisely, Bob Green pulls up the shutters of the bar at Tonic, the UK’s first LGBT+ retirement community. He switches on the disco lights and empties a multi-pack of Mini Cheddars out behind the counter. They’ll all be gone by the time the party’s over. Green is not a resident retiree but rather Tonic’s head of operations.
He arrived with Tim in 2021, with the sad knowledge that at some point he, Min, would be living there alone. “That was the whole reason,” he explains, “to find a community where, if one of us passed away, the other would have friends. We wouldn’t have to worry about coming out, or face discrimination, or ever have to explain who we are.” Tim died of Covid-19 in July 2022 at 80 years old. “Ah golly, I never stop missing him,” Min says, his voice cracking. “I still feel really horrible.
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