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COMBATTG THE VISIBILY OF OLR GAY MEN

You won’t fd a “Roommate Wanted” note on a store msage board anymore. But gay retirement muni are everywhere, and we list them all here. * retired gay men *

About a year ago, after five years work, endls rewr and table readgs, a film-ftival award, and put om gay iends the dtry, I fally took a ep breath and sent my queer-themed s pilot, “Life After Death, ” to agents and producers.

THE GAY MAN'S GUI TO DATG AFTER 50

Whether you're sgle aga or you've been around the block, gay datg isn't easy. * retired gay men *

The reactns were swift and mercils, one (gay) agent wrg me that, although the show was funny, the characters were praved, the language vile, the sexual referenc unthkable for a mastream, albe ble TV, dience. The show, about a fifty-year-old gay man stgglg to overe alholism, narcissism, and a sex-addicted past, and set agast the backdrop of his tumblg L.

Although I’ve been wrg forever—wh all the sults such a reer volv—and have penned four screenplays the past two years, the cricisms for this piece h me like bricks bee they were a direct afont to the last generatn of unbridled, yet rtricted, gay men who’ve survived spe a former panmic’s sire to kill every last one. Wh the rise of TV anti-hero like Tony Soprano and Walter Whe, and a fondns for darker, more plited characters general, I thought, naively, that a mature, gay male lead would be weled the same manner.

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The director of Call Your Father says his attractn to olr guys exposed a rarely discsed universal tth about gay men. * retired gay men *

In “The Flight Attendant, ” hero Cassie Bown (Kaley Christe Cuo) guzzl vodka and one-night-stands her way around the globe, but she at least has her sated, gay, married wh children, olr brother, Davey (T. The problem wh puttg gay men my age the spotlight isn’t that we’re attracted to, and havg relatns wh, the same sex (thank people like Murphy and others for helpg to break that TV barrier).

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is a muny for olr gay men and the men who love them. * retired gay men *

Sce our generatn grew up a time when Pri often meant “Party, ” endorsed by every gay rag at our reach, we’re also chockfull of revery programs and relatnship PTSD. Gone are the days when a gay man’s bt hope for a fabulo retirement was fdg a “Roommate Wanted” notice on a grocery store msage board. The Gay & Lbian Elr Hog’s (GLEH) missn is to improve the life experience of LGBT senrs and HIV/AIDS muni by velopg affordable hog, providg prehensive re and ensurg a brighter future for the LGBT elr muny.

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The gay-iendly untri offer opportuni for fun and adventure abroad. * retired gay men *

Dignated the ‘Send Gayt Cy the Uned Stat’ 2010 bee of s large LGBT populatn, Wilton Manors has been a progrsive place to live, work and play for years. There’s been a strong gay prence on the Cy Commissn sce the late 80s when the Cy of Wilton Manors elected Broward County’s first out gay official 1988, and sce havg a gay mayor, vice mayor and uncilman and 2018 havg an all-LGBT+ Cy Commissn – send only to Palm Sprgs, CA. 7 ln-senr, 55 and olr, hog plex featur 79 uns wh mix of affordable one-bedroom and stud apartments Chigo’s gay district, better known as Boystown.

A 55+ muny that wel rinc om all walks of life, the Rinc at Seashore Pot is prised maly of sgl and married upl, gay and straight, workg and retired. Anrson Apartments is a pet-iendly, LGBT-iendly senr (62+) muny loted  the heart of center cy Philalphia and jt mut om Philly’s official Gayborhood, cludg the “Avenue of the Arts”, William Way Communy Center, an LGBT muny center, and Mazonni Health & Legal Clics, along wh LGBT-iendly owned rtrants and bs.

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Photographs by Matthew MorrocLike many gay men searchg for timacy the morn day, the photographer Matthew Morroc has found his share of onle. "Wh the gay muny, negative stereotyp rerce the belief that gay relatnships are based solely on physil attractn, and that once youth starts to fa, we are unlikely to have any real or lastg relatnships, " says Rik Isensee, thor of Are You Ready?

More than 3 ln LGBT Amerins are currently over age 50, is time for the gay muny to get ser abour Retirement planng. Here is your Gay Retirement Gui. * retired gay men *

For every 20-somethg enterg the gay datg scene full of wi-eyed wonr, there's a 50-somethg (or a 60-, 70- or olr-somethg) man back on the market after a relatnship ends. He dulged me by followg Lra Dern around stead of lookg at the garns, which was fely not the first time she had been stalked by gay men at a garn party.

This kd of thg happened a uple dozen more tim my early I started wrg my short film Call Your Father, I wanted to not jt wre mentary on gay men, but I also wanted to figure out why I was nsistently drawn to guys around that age.

The U.S. ci have var posiv for LGBT retire, like a strong gay populatn, an affordable st of livg and a high sre wh the Human Rights Campaign's Equaly Inx. * retired gay men *

From the moment you realize as a gay man who you are, whether 's a challengg procs or not, you know (maybe subnscly) that a lot of the world hat you.

Most gay men never reach the end of this procs, and many never characters Call Your Father stggle eply wh nfince -- a stggle on one si maniftg self real mental health issu and on the other maniftg a lack of nnectn to the world and himself. Members of the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer muni have created new hom some of the world’s most excg and diverse ci. Reguliersdwarsstraat is Amsterdam’s popular LGBTQ neighborhood, while outsi of the pal the Hague, Rotterdam and Utrecht are other gay-iendly ci.

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