Founders Award Celebration

Join us Friday, May 29, 2026, to honor LGBTQ Senior Housing’s Co-Founder Aileen Montour with our first Annual Founders Award!

What Is The Founders Award: LGBTQ Senior Housing will honor an individual or organization with the Founders Award each year. Recipients will be chosen who embody the courageous and visionary spirit of our founders and their commitment to the LGBTQ community. Aileen is our first honoree!

What Are We Asking: We invite you to join us in honoring the commitment and achievements of one of our visionary founders, Aileen Montour, by giving generously in the spirit of LGBTQ Senior Housing’s unique and life-changing mission. Become an event sponsor, buy tickets, or purchase an ad today to help us continue to make history and build a welcoming and sustainable future for LGBTQ older adults.

What Can I Expect at The Founders Award Celebration: The LGBTQ Senior Housing team has planned a joyful fundraiser and cocktail reception at The Pryde that will take place May 29th. Hosted in the Weinberg Auditorium, there will be live music, light fare, and an engaging speak program. Please join us as an individual or a sponsor to honor Aileen and uplift our mission of supporting LGBTQ older adults!

With the opening of The Pryde in 2024, LGBTQ Senior Housing, Inc. made history. Our first housing community is also the first LGBTQ-welcoming income-restricted senior housing in New England. Nestled in the heart of the Hyde Park neighborhood of Boston, our beautiful building is home to over 80 low-income older adults as well as The Pryde Community Center – a gathering place for residents, neighbors, and the LGBTQ community. Rooted in the ethos of radical hospitality, our innovative programs and services help support our residents while uplifting, inspiring, informing and connecting our communities. We believe that our elders should have what they need to age with dignity and live joyfully as their full authentic selves.

Sponsorship and donations ensure that we can continue supporting low-income LGBTQ older adults and allies in living dignified lives.

With unparalleled tenacity and a gift for community organizing, Aileen has never wavered in her vision of senior housing deeply rooted in community and welcoming and accessible to all. Aileen has never stopped inspiring everyone around her. From building her own passive solar home to organizing the Boston Social Forum and the New Boston Sanctuary Movement to serving on the leadership team of Roslindale Is For Everyone (RISE), Aileen brought both her life-long passion for social justice and her professional experience as a nurse and acupuncturist to the challenge of building Boston’s first LGBTQ-welcoming affordable senior housing community.