Ageg Predators and Asexual Old Queens: Challengg Stereotyp of Cross-Generatnal Gay Relatnships Begners and Gerontophilia | SprgerLk

Contents:

• 'GERONTOPHILIA,' CONTROVERSIAL BCE LABCE FILM, EXPLOR INTERGENERATNAL GAY LOVE
• AGEG PREDATORS AND ASEXUAL OLD QUEENS: CHALLENGG STEREOTYP OF CROSS-GENERATNAL GAY RELATNSHIPS BEGNERS AND GERONTOPHILIA

'GERONTOPHILIA,' CONTROVERSIAL BCE LABCE FILM, EXPLOR INTERGENERATNAL GAY LOVE

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AGEG PREDATORS AND ASEXUAL OLD QUEENS: CHALLENGG STEREOTYP OF CROSS-GENERATNAL GAY RELATNSHIPS BEGNERS AND GERONTOPHILIA

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Footnote 6 Ined, his landmark study of how the olr gay man was discursively nstcted, Raymond Berger summarised this monplace assumptn of how the ageg gay man was thought to live:The olr homosexual…is alienated om iends and fay alike, and he liv alone, not by choice but by necsy. Footnote 8 Although the films are more nuanced than earlier reprentatns (I have praised Love and Death on Long Island’s subtle crique of herage nventns (Richardson 2019) and Michael Williams offers a stirrg fence of Gods and Monsters this llectn), the films do ntue the tradn of reprentg ageg homosexualy as an existence of lonels and sexual tratn which the olr gay man preys upon younger send siary media disurs between ageg women and gay men is that both are subject to the tyranny of The Bety Myth.

Footnote 9 Although is te that heterosexual men are now experiencg greater prsur to nform to hegemonic standards of mascule bety, Footnote 10 is still predomantly straight women and gay men who are required to objectify their bodi, ternalisg the gaze which regiments and mands standards of physil excellence.