A Broker Makes It Her Business To Fight LGBT Housing Discrimination

June 25, 2014 — Housing discrimination against gays, lesbians and other LGBT people might be expected, sadly, in some other parts of the country. But in New York City in 2014? It still happens enough that at least one real-estate broker, Tama Robertson of Coldwell Banker Bellmarc, has made such clients her specialty. And as a married lesbian who had faced co-op board discrimination herself, she empathizes. As one client says of her in The New York Times, "We were both speaking from a common unspoken understanding that the most important thing was to be in an open and affirming neighborhood."