Age Differenc Gay Coupl | Psychology Today

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. 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.

AGE DIFFERENC GAY COUPL

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. 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 | YOUNG PEOPLE ON AGE DIFFERENCE GAY RELATNSHIPS

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. Is ageism an issue wh the gay muny?

Mambaonle spoke to young people to fd out if age matters or should matter gay relatnships.