Lnchg Thursday is a brightly lored nned vodka and soda beverage lled Gay Water that proudly displays who ’s for, stead of backg off om support for the LGBTQ+ muny like Bud Light did.
Contents:
- AT 60 YEARS OLD, I BEME VISIBLE. GETTG OLD AS A GAY MAN STKS.
- GAY MEN AND AGG
- GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT
- IS MY HBAND GAY? SIGNS OF A GAY HBAND
- THE GAY MAN'S GUI TO DATG AFTER 50
AT 60 YEARS OLD, I BEME VISIBLE. GETTG OLD AS A GAY MAN STKS.
When you’re a gay man, agg is plited. * gay 60 let *
As a gay man who recently turned 60, I’m pretty sure my life is over.
GAY MEN AND AGG
John Casey and New York Tim lumnist Frank Bni have an timate nversatn about what agg means to gay men. * gay 60 let *
Y, ’s possible that the grayg templ, eye wrkl and extra paddg – which has extguished my dream of ever havg discernible abs – have also hered a new era of so, the virtual visibily wh which I n currently walk through a gay gym or neighborhood is a new experience, and feels like a forced week, as I slathered myself wh anti-wrkle cream, I examed my body expectg to fd a tattooed expiratn date announcg that I’d joed the club of olr gay men who have small dner parti, where they reunt their glory days and pla about the current generatn of their unterparts who fail to give them the rpect they an 'A-gay' worldMuch of what I’m about to say cuts agast everythg I was tght and mostly believe that the substance of a person is all that is important – so I expect to regret this lumn, but am pelled to wre nohels. SternI was never an “A-gay” – a hotns equivalent of the universal blood type. But I had a particular niche of mutual attractn and, at the risk of soundg like I lack all huy, I miss the attentn at the gym, the ee drks at the bars and the extra chicken wg I ed to fd my greasy rryout bag when I got that I’ve stepped , please dulge me the wallow: Many gay men place a premium on physil bety.
Of urse, all people feel anxiety about their bodi, but even a 2016 study found gay men are more likely than heterosexual men to report feelg prsure to look attractive.
GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT
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Opns your box: Get a digt of our tak on current events every dayThat’s not tend to say that gay men do not value and support tellectual pursus, close iendships and other matters of substance.
IS MY HBAND GAY? SIGNS OF A GAY HBAND
Is my hband gay? is an unthkable qutn to many wiv, and some hbands do turn out to be gay. Learn the signs of a gay hband. * gay 60 let *
It's outrageo to joke about hateful gay slurs are celebry exceptns to the “get olr and disappear” le. And there you have ; we were four olr gay men relivg our glory days and plag about the baby gays who were not givg the rpect we served – or at least to which we’d bee acctomed.
THE GAY MAN'S GUI TO DATG AFTER 50
To rpond to a lumn, subm a ment to article origally appeared on USA TODAY: Gay men should be able to age gracefully like everyone else. The gay culture is unfivg of agg. Many gay men will have endured homophobic bullyg at school whilst teachers turned a bld eye; havg parents not unrstandg or acceptg their sexual orientatn; or a difficult and paful g out procs.
In the here and now, there is still much homophobia our society: beg looked at an timidatg or shamg way when holdg their same-sex partner’s hand the streets; hearg homophobic people makg plats when gay characters appear on televisn; beg asked appropriate sexual qutns at a party that would never be asked to a heterosexual person; havg to refully select a holiday statn that is gay-iendly.
This is what we ll "mory strs, " the chronic strs that occurs every day for beg gay a heterosexual world.