Gay people 'at risk of a lonelier old age' | Long-term re | The Guardian

Contents:

• HOW TO COPE WHEN YOU'RE GAY AND LONELY
• GAY, MIDDLE-AGED, AND LONELY AS HELL
• GAY PEOPLE 'AT RISK OF A LONELIER OLD AGE'
• A GAY MAN AT MIDLIFE PONRS BEG LONELY AND ‘INVISIBLE’

HOW TO COPE WHEN YOU'RE GAY AND LONELY

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.

GAY, MIDDLE-AGED, AND LONELY AS HELL

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. 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.

GAY PEOPLE 'AT RISK OF A LONELIER OLD AGE'

I now know there were other kids at my school who were gay, but they didn't e out till much later. I am 20 year old gay. The Epimic ofGay Lonels.

A GAY MAN AT MIDLIFE PONRS BEG LONELY AND ‘INVISIBLE’

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.