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Nation's First LGBTQ+ Senior Housing Project Celebrates 10 Year Anniversary In Philadelphia

"Once we heard about it, we knew we wanted to be here. It would be the only place we'd be safe in our elder years," said Atlas.

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February 29, 2024

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Thirty years ago, Mary Groce and Suz Atlas found their harmony together after finding their way to each other.

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"There's that line by the Indigo Girls now that I know what it means to be free," said Groce. "Loving you means I know what it means to be free."

They moved to the John C. Anderson Apartments, the nation's first LGBTQ + senior housing project located in Philadelphia's Gayborhood seven years ago.

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