Why has this barely caused a blip in a community where a Democratic official says congressional leader Debbie Wasserman-Schultz was once spat at? How did the gay community feel comfortable enough to throw weekly dance parties at a country club?ģ. The answers are sensible, almost disappointingly so. (It's also why lesbians say they far outnumber gay men here.) Turns out, the amenities that brought in scores of Midwesterners and other retirees are the same things that attracted so many lesbians. Are you kidding? It's made for lesbians.'' 'The guys are more interested in fine dining and going to theaters and shows, so they gravitate toward bigger cities,'' said Wendy O'Donnell, who started the Rainbow club with her partner Peggy Garvin. To hear residents tell it, the esprit de corps in the Villages transcends other differences.
'You're always going to have someone complaining, but it's a low minority of people who might pick on others for being a different color, or different race or different whatever.'' 'We come from all over the country, from every walk of life,'' said Ed Sullivan, president of the Villages Republican Club of Sumter County.
