Where are all the lonely gay men?

HOW TO COPE WHEN YOU'RE GAY AND LONELY

I am a gay man my late 50s and have never been a relatnship. I am so lonely, and the paful empts I feel is beg absolutely unbearable. * i'm so lonely gay *

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. Here he shar his journey to overe the sense of isolatn he felt growg up gay a small U. 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.

GAY, MIDDLE-AGED, AND LONELY AS HELL

To be a gay man a straight marriage is to be disnnected om self. Let's read my iend Andrew Reid's story. * i'm so lonely gay *

I felt like I was pletely on my rried on until I was 16, when I started gog out to gay bars my hometown. I ma one gay iend, who I'm actually close to now. For the first time I've been able to form a good group of gay iends and create my own support work.

I'd go on gay chatrooms but that was jt a facels nversatn wh someone who uld have been anyone. I thk if I'd had iends who were gay when I was growg up, my life would have been so different. I now know there were other kids at my school who were gay, but they didn't e out till much later.

SAVAGE LOVE: I AM A LONELY, AGG GAY MAN; WHAT SHOULD I DO?

Only a few of the nam of the gay men this article are real. Jeremy[1] is not my only gay iend who’s stgglg.

For years I’ve noticed the divergence between my straight iends and my gay iends. “And told me two sentenc later that she knew I was gay. My parents still claim that they had no ia I was gay.

THE LONELS OF BEG GAY A STRAIGHT MARRIAGE

In our lifetime, the gay muny has ma more progrs on legal and social acceptance than any other mographic group history. As recently as my own adolcence, gay marriage was a distant aspiratn, somethg newspapers still put sre quot.