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While I was growg up, beg openly gay jt didn’t seem an optn. I settled down wh a hband and children – but then my sexualy rose to the surface

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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. * gay at 60 *

Neher is datg at midlife — pecially if you're a gay man. Right, gay datg isn't easy.

You're never too old to fd love, but that's not a msage gay men hear very often.

The gay muny's — OK, let's get real, mostly the gay male muny's — ageism.

AT 60 YEARS OLD, I BEME VISIBLE. GETTG OLD AS A GAY MAN STKS.

John Casey and New York Tim lumnist Frank Bni have an timate nversatn about what agg means to gay men. * gay at 60 *

"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? The Gay Man's Gui to Thrivg at Midlife. 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.

Do walkg to a gay bar make you feel more out of place than Lady Gaga shoppg for cloth at a mall?

For example, if you like the outdoors, jo a gay hikg or walkg group, and meet men while you get h air and exercise. Hey, you don't have to tell me 's tough beg gay, sgle and over 50.

7 REASONS WHY MY BEG GAY AND OVER 50 IS TRAGIC, ACRDG TO EVERYONE ELSE

7 Reasons Why My Beg Gay and Over 50 Is Tragic, Acrdg to Everyone Else * gay at 60 *

It's not like gay subculture has given lots of happily datg, olr gay male role mols. Wh all the foc on marriage equaly the days, 's easy for gay men to thk that beg sgle and happy is an oxymoron.

A NEW START AFTER 60: I’M GAY BUT HAD DONE NOTHG FOR LGBTQ+ PEOPLE. SO I ED MY PENSN TO LNCH A LOTTERY

When you’re a gay man, agg is plited. * gay at 60 *

I n thk of somethg far worse than beg sgle, gay and olr. Beg upled, gay and unhappy. Revealg that you're lbian or gay marks an important tone your life.

GAY MEN AND AGG

* gay at 60 *

More than half of gay men and nearly 40% of lbian women surveyed 2013 said they had e out to iends and fay before age cisn isn't easy for everyone, though. I’m a 52-year-old gay man, and last year was the year that I fally chose to be open about who I am. She was homophobic.

*BEAR-MAGAZINE.COM* GAY AT 60

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