Advice on how to nont ageism the gay muny spe earlier loss and how to avoid beg alone.
Contents:
- HOW TO COPE WHEN YOU'RE GAY AND LONELY
- A GAY MAN AT MIDLIFE PONRS BEG LONELY AND ‘INVISIBLE’
- GAY GUYS: DO YOU FEEL ALONE?
- IS LONELS THE GAY MAN’S CURSE, OR A PRODUCT OF 21ST CENTURY LIFE?
- SAVAGE LOVE: I AM A LONELY, AGG GAY MAN; WHAT SHOULD I DO?
HOW TO COPE WHEN YOU'RE GAY AND LONELY
* gay feel alone *
Part of realizg you're gay, or bi, or trans, or non-bary, or anythg other than cisgenr and heterosexual is acceptg you’re different—and somewhat separated—om the majory.
A GAY MAN AT MIDLIFE PONRS BEG LONELY AND ‘INVISIBLE’
I know ’s not jt our muny, but ’s creasgly mon for gay men to feel isolated and alone. * gay feel alone *
At the time, there were no real gay role mols except for Graham Norton and Jack om Dawson's Creek—and I certaly didn't intify wh him bee I wasn't a football player.
I felt like I was pletely on my rried on until I was 16, when I started gog out to gay bars my hometown.
For the first time I've been able to form a good group of gay iends and create my own support work. In our lifetime, the gay muny has ma more progrs on legal and social acceptance than any other mographic group history.
GAY GUYS: DO YOU FEEL ALONE?
As recently as my own adolcence, gay marriage was a distant aspiratn, somethg newspapers still put sre quot.
IS LONELS THE GAY MAN’S CURSE, OR A PRODUCT OF 21ST CENTURY LIFE?
Still, even as we celebrate the sle and speed of this change, the rat of prsn, lonels and substance abe the gay muny rema stuck the same place they’ve been for s.
Gay people are now, pendg on the study, between 2 and 10 tim more likely than straight people to take their own liv.
SAVAGE LOVE: I AM A LONELY, AGG GAY MAN; WHAT SHOULD I DO?
In a survey of gay men who recently arrived New York Cy, three-quarters suffered om anxiety or prsn, abed dgs or alhol or were havg risky sex—or some batn of the three. Dpe all the talk of our “chosen fai, ” gay men have fewer close iends than straight people or gay women.