Gay datg culture n be que difficult to navigate. We recently saw a nversatn about age surface on social media when media personaly Somizi Mhlongo revealed that he was datg someone almost twice as young as him.
Contents:
- AGE DIFFERENC GAY COUPL
- AGE DIFFERENC GAY COUPL
- GAY DATG | YOUNG PEOPLE ON AGE DIFFERENCE GAY RELATNSHIPS
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.
AGE DIFFERENC GAY COUPL
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.
GAY DATG | YOUNG PEOPLE ON AGE DIFFERENCE GAY RELATNSHIPS
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.
They nsir discrimatn a part of beg gay. Their work will fort men the double jeopardy of beg both gay and lovg someone much olr or younger. Gay datg culture n be que difficult to navigate.
Acrdg to a recent Mambaonle poll, 61% of gay men said they’d dated guys ten years and olr than them, but there seems to be a belief that people opt to date olr men bee of their social pal.