Advice on how to nont ageism the gay muny spe earlier loss and how to avoid beg alone.
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. 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.
GAY, MIDDLE-AGED, AND LONELY AS HELL
I'd go on gay chatrooms but that was jt a facels nversatn wh someone who uld have been anyone.
GAY PEOPLE 'AT RISK OF A LONELIER OLD AGE'
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.
A GAY MAN AT MIDLIFE PONRS BEG LONELY AND ‘INVISIBLE’
I am 20 year old gay. The Epimic ofGay Lonels. 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.