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Contents:

• AVERAGE OF 20 GAY MEN BASHED EVERY DAY FOR OVER 40 YEARS, NSW QUIRY TOLD
• GLA40
• 7 REASONS WHY MY BEG GAY AND OVER 50 IS TRAGIC, ACRDG TO EVERYONE ELSE
• LIFE AFTER 40 - GAY, BI, TRANS, QUEER, PAN MEN'S GROUP
• GAY MEN AND AGG
• 40 PL: GAY MEN. GAY TALK.
• BT GAY DATG APPS FOR HOOKUPS, RELATNSHIPS, AND EVERYTHG BETWEEN
• HOW TO MEET GAY SENRS (SEP. 2023)

AVERAGE OF 20 GAY MEN BASHED EVERY DAY FOR OVER 40 YEARS, NSW QUIRY TOLD

Assistant New South Wal police missner, Anthony Cranll, has told a landmark quiry that on average 20 gay men were bashed every day for a perd spanng more than four special missn of quiry, s send block of heargs, is examg the police approach to spected hate crim agast LGBTQ+ people between 1970 and 2010. “I beme aware … when I unrtook sexualy and genr diversy trag … and rmatn was given to me, that there were wrten rerds at the time of up to at least 20 reports per day of bashgs of gay men, ” Cranll said on then asked: “You, I prume, immediately appreciated that that was a much higher reportg sle than had been reported to the police?

GLA40

” Cranll told the hearg that was bee “largely gay people were miststful of the police and unwillg to report to police? Cranll said the gay bashgs were due to an “herent lack of nsequenc and acuntabily”.

“Perpetrators were given a kd of social licence to ntue flictg vlence upon members of the gay muny, ” he royal missn-style quiry, tablished at the urgg of a parliamentary probe after the Parrabell report, has powers to pel wns to attend and to a fal report 2018, Cranll said the force’s past difference to gay bashgs had been upled wh a tac social tolerance of vlence directed at gay men and the LGBTQ+ muny the 1970s to past newsletter promotnafter newsletter promotn“It is clear and beyond qutn that levels of vlence flicted upon gay men particular were elevated, extreme and often btal, ” the report said at the also asked if police officers had downplayed, as recently as 2014, the level of gay hate murrs. “I don’t thk there was an tentn to downplay … I do thk there was ncern about the numbers on the basis that 88 gay hate aths my opn was a lot, ” Cranll told Tuday’s hearg.

My stat the gay guy world had changed, and that was jt how was gog to be. Where was the show that I uld intify wh, the one about gay men their 40s still tryg to figure out life and s twists and turns, ups and downs, surpris and disappotments? I uldn't fd anythg alg wh issu to which I uld relate.And then I thought about all of my 40-somethg gay iends and how they all led very different liv om me and each other's as well.

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

So, along wh my wrg partner John Sobrack (a fellow gay filmmaker, married and his 40s), I created The New 30 -- a digal seri about a group of diverse gay iends navigatg their 40s and disverg that life isn't nearly what they imaged would be at that age. It explor some of the real issu of beg gay and your 40s, such as erectile dysfunctn, tergeneratnal and terracial datg, baby adoptn, open marriag, adaptg to technology, physil challeng of agg, alg wh the past, planng for the future, and havg to start over, to name a few -- all handled serly and dramatilly but wh a touch of humor.

I've learned 's OK to be gay and your 40s and not have your life all figured out. William Smh Founr & Publisher of Gay Life After 40. Founr & Publisher of Gay Life After 40.

The are Pre rerd Zoom lls wh the greatt gay fluencers of all time. Private Facebook group for GLA40 members lled the The Gay Life After 40 Transformatn. Never md gettg turned down for a wrg job I ially created (they gave to an unrwear mol who don’t wre), I’ve learned that, gay world, my creativy should have end about the time many of my iends’ liv did.

LIFE AFTER 40 - GAY, BI, TRANS, QUEER, PAN MEN'S GROUP

I’m unr-reprented gay-themed films and TV shows, and prt publitns don’t seem to know that I exist.

GAY MEN AND AGG

If someone don’t know about Boy Gee g out on TV or Tth or Dare’s gay kiss or the AIDS quilt, then sffs off as “an age thg, ” they are lerally sayg that ignorance is preferable to knowledge. There’s nothg I love more then when young gay men ask me about LGBT life the 80s, and I’m thrilled I n tell them about the ups and downs.

My own favore sentimental gay-old story?

He died after passg on a treasure trove of gay history.

40 PL: GAY MEN. GAY TALK.

Who would have thought the notn of marriage beg the measure of te happs would bee a gay norm? He is a member of the Hoe of Lords  the Uned Kgdom, stg as a life peer for the Labour Party, and is scribed as one of only a few openly gay Mlim policians the world.

In 1998 she beme the first openly gay woman and first openly LGBT non-cumbent elected to the Uned Stat Congrs, as well as the first woman elected to reprent Wisns Congrs. In 2012 Baldw beme the first openly gay person and first openly LGBT person elected to the Uned Stat Senate. Margaret is wily regnized for her charable work wh gay rights and anti-bullyg mpaigns.

In 2014, Cook beme the first chief executive of a Fortune 500 pany to publicly e out as gay. Cooper is openly gay; acrdg to The New York Tim, he is “the most proment openly gay journalist on Amerin televisn.

BT GAY DATG APPS FOR HOOKUPS, RELATNSHIPS, AND EVERYTHG BETWEEN

On July 2, 2012, however, he gave Andrew Sullivan permissn to publish an email that stated, part: “…The fact is, I’m gay, always have been, always will be, and I uldn’t be any more happy, fortable wh myself, and proud. Cummg has promoted LGBT rights, MC-g and attendg fundraisers for anisatns such as the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn (GLAAD) and the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), and takg part an Equaly Network vio mpaign, om New York, promotg the legalisatn of same-sex marriage Stland. He had a hugely succsful reer as a fashn stylist and edor and, 2017, beme the first gay edor of Brish Vogue.

Fry stggled to keep his homosexualy secret durg his teenage years at public school, and by his own acunt did not engage sexual activy for 16 years om 1979 until 1995. Geffen me out as gay  1992. In May 2007, Out magaze ranked Geffen first s list of the fifty “Most Powerful Gay Men and Women Ameri”.

John me out as bisexual  a 1976 terview wh Rollg Stone, but after his divorce om Blel 1988, he told the magaze 1992 that he was “que fortable about beg gay. In his memoir, Transparent, Lemon me out as gay and discs lorism  the black muny, and the sexual abe he suffered as a child. Mutchnick, like Will Tman, is openly gay.

HOW TO MEET GAY SENRS (SEP. 2023)

Esther Newton is an Amerin cultural anthropologist bt known for her pneerg work on the ethnography of lbian and gay muni the Uned Stat. On May 23, 2012, an article  The New York Tim noted that Parsons is gay and had been a relatnship for the last ten years.

He assumed the posn 2001 as the first Lato and openly gay man to do so. Upon takg office, Takano beme the first openly gay person of Asian scent Congrs.

Tennant is openly gay, revealg his sexualy a 1994 terview  Attu magaze.