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Contents:

• AGE DIFFERENC GAY COUPL
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE COACH TO COME OUT AS GAY MAJOR U.S. SPORTS
• AGE OF SEXUAL BUT AMONG YOUNG GAY-INTIFIED SEXUAL MORY MEN: THE P18 COHORT STUDY

AGE DIFFERENC GAY COUPL

Many quiri I have received over and over aga through the years beg somethg like this: “I've always liked olr men, but many gay iends close to my age are cril of me and spic of my motiv. ” One young man said to me, “If I see a handsome gay man my age, he might jt as well have a vaga. Var labels have been ascribed to tergeneratnal upl, whether straight, gay or bisexual: tergeneratnal, age-gap, age-discrepant, or, more often than not, “May-December” relatnships.

Inially, I was unnvced the relatnships were ser, but that was bee I held stereotypil views: an olr gay man who was lookg for a trophy-mate and has the money to take re of his boy toy and a younger man who was lookg for a sugar daddy. I now regnize this as a hackneyed ia that furiat men age-gap gay relatnships. Based on the number of tim this qutn drops to my mailbox, the reasons for the age-discrepant attractns nsum a great al of bandwidth the thoughts of a lot of young gay and bisexual men.

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

Was pletg his doctoral dissertatn, “May-December: Navigatg Life as an Intergeneratnal Gay Couple, ” he thoroughly rearched what proved to be the limed available lerature on tergeneratnal upl. Their work will fort men the double jeopardy of beg both gay and lovg someone much olr or younger.

Do those volved homosexualy live as long on average as non-homosexuals?

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE COACH TO COME OUT AS GAY MAJOR U.S. SPORTS

Hard evince is difficult to e by, but the data we do have suggts that homosexualy tends to shorten life by many years. Cameron P, Playfair WL, & Wellum S (1994) The longevy of homosexuals: before and after the AIDS epimic.

Cameron P, Cameron K (2007) Feral distortn of homosexual footprt (ignorg early gay ath?

For lbians, gay men, bisexuals and transgenr people, realizg their sexual orientatn or genr inty and sharg that rmatn wh fay and iends is often a gradual procs that n unfold over a seri of years.

AGE OF SEXUAL BUT AMONG YOUNG GAY-INTIFIED SEXUAL MORY MEN: THE P18 COHORT STUDY

A majory of employed LGBT adults say their workplac are acceptg of people who are lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr. And some 54% say all or most of the important people their life know that they are lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr.

Lbians and gay men are more likely than bisexuals to have told at least one close iend about their sexual orientatn (96% of gay men and 94% of lbians, pared wh 79% of bisexuals). And they are much more likely to say that most of the people who are important to them know about this aspect of their life: 77% of gay men and 71% of lbians say all or most people know, pared wh 28% of bisexuals. Among all LGBT adults, those wh a llege gree are more likely than those who have not graduated om llege to say all or most of the important people their life know they are lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr (64% vs.

Lbian, gay and bisexual survey rponnts were asked how old they were when they first felt they might be somethg other than straight or heterosexual. Gay men report, on average, thkg around age 10 that they might not be straight. Among gay men, about four--ten (38%) say they were younger than 10 when they first felt they were not heterosexual.