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2024
Financial Times, ‘ Gay old time: inside the UK’s first LGBT+ retirement home’, 22nd June
Housing Learning and Improvement Network (LIN), ‘Why housing for LGBTQ+ people later in life matters’, 19th June
SW Londoner, ‘We’re crying out for something different’: ensuring every LGBTQIA+ Londoner has somewhere safe to call home’, 27th April
The Guardian, ‘They don’t just stay in a room waiting to die’: new buildings giving older people beauty, freedom and dignity’, 28th January
BBC Radio 4 ‘You and Yours’ Programme (from 21:14), 24th January
2023
SW Londoner, ‘Life at Tonic: The UK's first LGBTQ+ retirement community’, 13th December
Healthcare Digital, ‘Ensuring the safety of elderly LGBT+ people in care homes’, 17th August
BBC Radio London, 15th August
The Times, ‘What it’s like to live in an LGBT retirement home’, 4th August
Inside Housing, ‘Pride for life: lessons from the LGBTQ+ retirement community in the heart of London’, 2nd August
British Vogue, Tim Walker’s Pride Portfolio 2023, July Issue
Pink News, ‘Care homes host heartwarming Silver Pride events for LGBTQ+ elders: ‘I can finally be myself’, 22nd June
Waitrose & Partners Weekend Magazine, ‘Flying a flag for the golden years’, 15th June
GCN, “How LGBTQ+ retirement communities create healing spaces for queer elders”, 7th April
BBC London News, “Comic Relief 2023: LGBT+ retirement community gets funds”, 17th March
City News, by Billie-Jo Becker, 17th March
BBC Morning Live, Tonic Housing Comic Relief Video, 13th March
The Guardian, “I knew I wanted to stay here for the rest of my life’: how London got its first LGBTQ+ retirement community”, 2nd February
2022
Gay Times, “10 of the most significant moments for LGBTQ+ people in 2022”, 29th December
The Times, “The checklist: tips for moving into a retirement home”, 25th November
Financial Times, “New-generation retirement housing for LGBT+ people”, 11th November
Gay Times, “UK Black Pride 2022 makes history as “largest Black Pride in the world”, 14th August
Queer Spaces: Behind the Scene, Episode 2: Tonic Housing, 26th April
iNews, How we want to live our lives out, by Patrick Strudwick, Printed 29th March
iNews, ‘Where I can be me’: Inside Britain’s first LGBT retirement home, by Patrick Strudwick, 26th March
South Londoner, Just the Tonic, Printed March
LGBT+ History Month, Tonic Housing, 18th March
Enter Gallery, Enter Gallery sources art for the UK's first LGBTQ+ retirement community, 11th February
2021
Homo Sapiens Podcast, 148: The Old Gays | Part 1, 21 October
Rewirement Podcast by L&G, Episode five: Retirement among the LGBT+ community, 8th July
DIVA Magazine, Just the Tonic, July
World Habitat, ‘It is all about community’ at the UK’s first LGBT+ affirming retirement community, 4th May
Inside Housing, A New Action Plan for LGBTQ Housing, 1st February
+ Tonic@Bankhouse Funding Announcement, March 2021 and Tonic@Bankhouse Launch, September 2021 below
Tonic@Bankhouse Funding Announcement, March 2021
Geoff Pine on BBC Breakfast
Anna Kear on Sky News
Evening Standard, Britain’s first LGBT+ retirement village to open in Vauxhall at Norman Foster-designed Bankhouse
BBC, UK’s ‘first’ LGBT retirement community to open in London
Independent, Sadiq Khan backs UK’s first retirement community designed for LGBT+ people
Metro, UK’s first LGBTQ+ retirement community to open in London
GAY TIMES, UK’s first ever LGBTQ+ retirement community to open in 2021
Attitude, UK's first LGBTQ retirement community set to open in 2021
Openly, UK to open first LGBT+ retirement community as market grows
OUT, First-Ever LGBTQ+ Retirement Community to Open in London
Inside Housing, Housing association to open UK’s first LGBTQ+ retirement community
Property Week, One Housing teams with Tonic for LGBT+ retirement scheme
Tonic@Bankhouse Launch, September 2021
Attitude, Mayor ‘proud’ as UK’s first LGBT+ affirmative retirement community opens in London
Attitude, Sadiq Khan speaks out in support of trans and non-binary Londoners
DIVA, Tonic Housing launches the UK’s first LGBTQIA+ retirement community, Tonic@Bankhouse
Pink News, Sadiq Khan challenges allies to listen to LGBT+ elders: ‘The best history is living history’
Secret London, The UK’s first LGBT+ retirement community has just opened in London
2020
The Log Books Podcast, “Episode 1: Please be gentle”, Tonic feature from around the 50:00 mark, November
#STOPageism, Living life as an older LGBT+ person, 13th October
DIVA Magazine, Older LGBTQI community “feel like the forgotten generations”, 29th September
Care Management Matters, Building Safe Choices for older LGBT+ people, 29th September
OUT News Global, Supported housing for older LGBTQ+ people urgently needed. by Sarah Canning, 29th September
2019
Property Week, Later Living schemes serve LGBT community by Adam Branson, 31 October
Centre for Ageing Better, New models of community are needed to give LGBT+ people a good later life by Georgia Elander, 16th July
Estates Gazette, Finding the tonic to house an ageing LGBT+ community by Anna Kear, 5th July
iNews, The first retirement homes being planned for LGBT OAPs who worry about telling carers their sexuality, 24th June (reprint of The Economist)
The Economist, A pinker shade of grey, 22nd June (Print & online)
PinkNews, More older LGBT people in need of affordable housing help than ever before by Harriet Williamson, 14th May
24housing, Anna’s Aspiration: Tonic Housing CEO reveals her plans for older LGBT housing, May 2019
2018
Inside Housing, Embedding LGBT rights as lived experience is our responsibility as housing providers by Dame Clare Tickell, 19th June
24housing, Tonic announces new CEO by Bill Tanner, 11th April
Estates Gazette, LGBT+ developer appoints Chief Executive by Alexander Pearce, 12th April
Carehome.co.uk, London to get UK's first LGBT+ care home by Sue Learner, 12th April
2017
The Financial Times, Britain’s old age industry gears up for baby boomers by Naomi Rovnick, November
Attitude magazine, No Country for Old Men by Chris Godfrey, April
Care Talk, Tonic Housing: A fresh approach to LGBT+ older living, 25th August
Estates Gazette, LGBT retirement homes could be the Tonic to loneliness by Samantha McClary, 4th July
2016
The Times, First gay home stops pensioners going back into the closet by Alice Thomson and Rachel Sylvester, 13th December
Broadly (Vice), For ageing trans people, growing old is especially isolating by Chris Godfrey, 14th June
2015
Carehome.co.uk, UK could have its first 'LGBT-friendly' care village by 2020 by Ellie Spanswick, 30th October
Quadratin Hidalgo, Un asilo LGBT en Londres by Luis Alberto Rodríguez, 19th September
Gay Realty Network, Britain to Get First Ever LGBT Retirement Home, by Scott Coatsworth, 18th September
BT, Britain is set to get its first gay old people’s home by Emma Lazenby, 18th September
PinkNews, Britain to get first ever LGBT retirement home by Joseph Patrick McCormick, 18th September
Stonewall, Care for older LGBT folk by Sarah Moore, 18th September
The Huffington Post, Britain’s First Care Home For Elderly LGBT Could Open In Next Three Years by Natasha Hinde, 17th September
Yahoo News, Britain Set For First Gay Old People's Home, 17th September
Gay Times, Britain to open first LGBT retirement home by Dean Eastmond, 16th September
Metro, Britain to get first gay old people’s home by Oliver McAteer, 16th September
Buzzfeed UK, The UK's First Gay Old People's Home To Open Within Three Years by Patrick Strudwick, 16th September
Ham & High Property, Retirement property to lust after by Prudence Ivey, 9th October
Fellowship for Intentional Community, European Projects Explore Cohousing for LGBT Elders by Saul Of-Hearts, 2nd May
Community Care, LGBT housing project will challenge ‘status-quo’ on how care and support is delivered by Rachel Carter, 25th February
