I was 19, gay and ready to be ‘cured’ by nversn therapy | Fay | The Guardian

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• MEET THE GAY 19-YEAR-OLD WHO WON A SEAT ON HIS CY UNCIL
• HATE CRIME CHARG ADD GOME GRDR ATTACK ON GAY TEEN
• THIS GAY 19-YEAR-OLD JT BEME ONE OF THE YOUNGT ELECTED OFFICIALS THE US
• AGE DIFFERENC GAY COUPL
• 9 FAMO GAY MEN WH YOUNGER BOYIENDS: FROM GAY TO {FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}CELEBRIBY ALEXANR STEVENSONJULY 4, 2014/2:00 PMBY ALEXANR STEVENSONJULY 4, 2014 / 2:00 PM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"9 FAMO GAY MEN WH YOUNGER BOYIENDS: FROM GAY TO DECEMBER","DATEPUBLISHED":"2014-07-04T18:00:43.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2014-07-04T18:00:43.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"ALEXANR STEVENSON","ARTICLESECTN":"CELEBRI"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AS GAY CELEBRI BEG TO FEEL MORE FORTABLE BEG OPEN ABOUT THEIR RELATNSHIPS, WE'RE SEEG THEY'RE NOT ALL THAT DIFFERENT OM STRAIGHT STARS, WHO OFTEN DATE MUCH YOUNGER THAN THEIR {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WHEN WE LEARNED TOM DALEY’S NEW BOYIEND WAS NONE OTHER THAN OSR-WNG SCREENWRER DT LANCE BLACK, GAY TONGU STARTED WAGGG ABOUT THE UPLE’S 20-YEAR AGE GAP. OF URSE, DALEY ISN’T YOUR TYPIL 19-YEAR-OLD, AND DLB LOOKS LIKE A LN BUCKS—BUT GOT THKG ABOUT OTHER HIGH-PROFILE GAY ROMANC WH A SIGNIFINT AGE DIFFERENCE. DO SOME EXTRA EAGE ON THE ODOMETER MEAN ANYTHG WHEN YOU’RE LOVE?{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IF THE NE UPL BELOW ARE ANY DITN, THE ANSWER IS “Y, NO, AND MAYBE.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}GERALD MCCULLOUCH AND DERRICK {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE STORYBOOK ROMANCE: GORDON, 22, IS THE FIRST OPENLY GAY BASKETBALL PLAYER THE NCAA. MCCULLOUCH, 47,  IS A FORMER ST MEMBER OF CSI AND APPEARED THE DIE GAY EDY BEAR CY. THE TWO WENT PUBLIC WH THEIR RELATNSHIP AT THE NYC GLAAD MEDIA AWARDS MAY. “A NIGHT THAT I WILL NEVER FET AND A NIGHT THAT I DIDN'T WANT TO END,” GORDON TWEETED ABOUT THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}DID THEY LIVE HAPPILY EVER AFTER? LETS GIVE THE KIDS A CHANCE!{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}TOM DALEY AND DT LANCE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE STORYBOOK ROMANCE: DALEY, 20, ME OUT A HEARTFELT YOUTUBE VIO LAST YEAR, DITG WAS LOVE THAT SPARKED HIS NEWFOUND OPENNS. INIALLY HE AVOID NAMG NAM, BUT HE AND BLACK, 40, STARTED POPPG UP ON EACH OTHERS SOCIAL MEDIA, AND WH MONTHS STEPPED OUT AS A UPLE. THE MILK SCREENWRER HAS EVEN BEEN TO ENGLAND TO SPEND CHRISTMAS WH DALEY AND HIS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}DID THEY LIVE HAPPILY EVER AFTER: THGS ARE LOOKG {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}CALV KLE AND NICK {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE STORYBOOK ROMANCE: THE FASHN SIGNER WAS 67  2010, WHEN HE BEGAN DATG GBER, A 20 YEAR OLD MOL WH A GAY-PORN PAST. KLE THREW A MORE-LAVISH-THAN-LAVISH 21ST BIRTHDAY PART FOR HIS BOYTOY AT INDOCHE, A STUD 54-THEMED BASH FEATURG GUTS LIKE ANNA WTOUR, DONNA KARAN AND VERA WANG AND A KE WH 21 {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}DID THEY LIVE HAPPILY EVER AFTER? NOT QUE. KLE FALLY END THGS AFTER GBER WAS ARRTED FOR ASSLT AND DG POSSSN. IT LOOKED LIKE THEY REKDLED THE AFFAIR LAST SUMMER, BUT NOTHG ME OF {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AFTER BEG TOSSED OUT OF THE ASCENSN PARTY ON FIRE ISLAND 2013, GBER NOW CLAIMS HE’S NOT {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}NATE BERK AND JEREMIAH {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE STORYBOOK ROMANCE: INTERR SIGNER/TV PERSONALY BERK, 42, LOST HIS BOYIEND FERNANDO BENGOECHEA DURG THE  TSUNAMIS THAT VASTATED SOUTH ASIA 2004. BUT HE FOUND LOVE AGA 2012 WH TWENTYSOMETHG BRENT, A FORMER ASSISTANT TO RACHEL {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}DID THEY LIVE HAPPILY EVER AFTER? HOPEFULLY Y. THE UPLE MARRIED EARLIER THIS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}T.R. KNIGHT AND MARK {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE STORYBOOK ROMANCE: THE FORMER GREY’S ANATOMY STAR WAS 35 WHEN HE STARTED DATG THE 19-YEAR-OLD STUNT. “IT’S BOUND TO RAISE SOME EYEBROWS,” KNIGHT ADMTED TO EXTRA AT THE TIME. “BUT WE LOVE EACH OTHER.  [MARK] IS AN AMAZG GUY. I LOVE BEG AROUND HIM I LOVE WHAT WE HAVE.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}DID THEY LIVE HAPPILY EVER AFTER? ALAS, NO. WHETHER WAS THE AGE DIFFERENCE OR SOMETHG ELSE, THE GUYS EVENTUALLY SPL AND KNIGHT BEGAN SEEG PATRICK LEAHY 2010. THE UPLE MARRIED OCTOBER 2013 AFTER THREE YEARS OF {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}MARC JABS AND HARRY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE STORYBOOK ROMANCE: WHAT IS ABOUT SIGNERS AND PORN STARS? JABS, OIME HEAD OF LOUIS VUTON, STARTED A HEATED ROMANCE WH BRAZILIAN ADULT-FILM ACTOR HARRY LOUIS, SPE THEIR 26-YEAR AGE DIFFERENCE. THE TWOSOME’S URTSHIP WAS CHRONICLED NUMERO INSTAGRAM PICS AND TWTER UPDAT TAKEN EXOTIC {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}DID THEY LIVE HAPPILY EVER AFTER? TE TO FORM, LOUIS TOOK TO INSTAGRAM TO ANNOUNCE HIS AND JABS’ SPL WH A PHOTO OF THE UPLE DONE UP LIKE A SHATTERED PICTURE AME. “ME AND MARC HAVE CID NOT RRY ON WH OUR RELATNSHIP AS BOYIENDS,” HE POSTED WH THE IMAGE. “WE LOVE EACH OTHER VERY MUCH, AND THAT WAS A CISN OM BOTH!”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}OF URSE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}CHEYENNE JACKSON AND JASON {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE STORYBOOK ROMANCE: JACKSON’S SPL OM HIS PARTNER OF 13 YEARS, MONTE LAPKA, WENT PUBLIC WHEN PHOTOS OF THE 30 ROCK STAR WH A SHAVED HEAD AND LOTS OF NEW TATTOOS EMERGED ONLE.  AFTER MOVG TO WT HOLLYWOOD, JACKSON, 39, QUICKLY FOUND NEW LOVE WH THE YOUNGER LAND, AN ASPIRG {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}DID THEY LIVE HAPPILY EVER AFTER? IF JACKSON’S ALLEGED SEX TAPE IS TO BELIEVED, THEN HELL {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD AND DON {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE STORYBOOK ROMANCE: ISHERWOOD, ONE OF THE GREAT CHRONICLERS OF 20TH CENTURY GAY LIFE, WAS 48 WHEN HE MET 18-YEAR-OLD BACHARDY ON VALENTE’S DAY 1953. THE 30-YEAR AGE GAP RAISED EYEBROWS, AS DID BACHARDY’S REPUTATN AS A HTLER. BUT THEIR RELATNSHIP HELPED THE TWO MEN FLOURISH EMOTNALLY AND CREATIVELY—BACHARDY EVEN SPIRED ISHERWOOD’S A SGLE MAN: “WE’D BEEN TOGETHER 10 YEARS. I WAS MAKG A LOT OF TROUBLE AND WONRG IF I SHOULDN’T BE ON MY OWN," RELLS BACHARDY. "CHRIS WAS GOG THROUGH A VERY DIFFICULT PERD [AS WELL]. SO HE KILLED OFF MY CHARACTER, JIM, THE BOOK AND IMAGED WHAT HIS LIFE WOULD BE WHOUT ME.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}DID THEY END UP HAPPILY EVER AFTER? DPE AFFAIRS, ARGUMENTS AND SEPARATNS, BACHARDY AND ISHERWOOD REMAED TOGETHER  UNTIL ISHERWOOD’S ATH 1986. BACHARDY STILL LIV THE SANTA MONI HOME THEY SHARED FOR {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}LIBERACE AND STT {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE STORYBOOK ROMANCE: LIBERACE WAS 57 WHEN HE HIRED THORSON, 18, TO BE HIS DRIVER THE LATE 1970S AND EMBARKED ON A FIVE-YEAR ROMANCE FULL OF LAVISH PRENTS, EXOTIC VATNS… AND CREEPY PLASTIC SURGERY. THE CLOSETED ENTERTAER EVEN MANAGED TO SHOEHORN THORSON TO HIS VEGAS ACT AS A DANCER. DID THEY LIVE HAPPILY EVER AFTER? UM, DID YOU SEE BEHD THE CANLABRA?{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}JONATHAN ADLER AND SIMON {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE STORYBOOK ROMANCE: THOUGH NOW KNOWN AS THE KG OF KSCHY TERR RATG ADLER WAS A YOUNG SCULPTOR WHEN HE MET DOONAN, HEAD MERCHANDISER FOR BARNEY’S, ON A BLD DATE 1994. “THE BLOKE WHO SET UP JT HAD SOME TUN THAT WE WOULD H OFF ,” DOONANRELLED  THE NEW YORK TIM. “BUT HE BADGERED ME WH LOTS OF DIRECT QUTNS,” MR. DOONAN SAID. “IN ENGLAND PEOPLE WOULDN’T ASK A LOT OF DIRECT QUTNS.” THEY WED 2008 AFTER 14 YEARS TOGETHER. DID THEY LIVE HAPPILY EVER AFTER? AFTER NEARLY 20 YEARS AS THE SIGN WORLD’S POWER GAY COUPLE, WE’D SAY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HADRIAN AND {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE STORYBOOK ROMANCE:  ANTO BEME PART OF THE ENTOURAGE OF EMPEROR HADRIAN WHEN HE WAS STILL A BOY, BUT AT SOME POT THEIR RELATNSHIP TURNED SEXUAL. HADRIAN MARRIED AN ARISTOCRAT, VIBIA SABA, 100AD BUT THE UPLE HAD NO CHILDREN. (HIS HEIRS WERE ALL ADOPTED.) DID THEY LIVE HAPPILY EVER AFTER? TRAGILLY, ANTO DROWNED THE NILE 130 AD, SENDG HADRIAN TO NSOLABLE GRIEF. HE ORRED THE GREEK YOUTH IFIED AS A GOD AND NAMED THE EGYPTIAN CY ANTOPOLIS HIS MEMORY. ARCHAEOLOGIST RJA WILSON WROTE THAT HADRIAN “TURNED TO [GREEK SCULPTORS] TO PERPETUATE THE MELANCHOLY BETY, DIFFINT MANNER, AND LHE AND SENSUO AME OF HIS BOYIEND ANTO” WHAT HAS BEEN SCRIBED AS “THE LAST PENNT CREATN OF GRE-ROMAN ART.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS
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• GAY PRI

MEET THE GAY 19-YEAR-OLD WHO WON A SEAT ON HIS CY UNCIL

Amazgly, he also claims that he didn’t experience much homophobia when he me out school or around town.

HATE CRIME CHARG ADD GOME GRDR ATTACK ON GAY TEEN

Hate crime charg have been add a grisly asslt last summer that left a gay Louisiana teen a a for three Whe of Lafayette was jt 18 when he met 19-year-old Chance Sene on the gay datg app Grdr. After munitg for a month, the two young men cid to meet person late, a sophomore at Louisiana State Universy, Eunice, said he ved Sene over to his new apartment, but Sene nvced him to e to his father's hoe to play vio some awkward nversatn, Whe said his next memory is of beg pulled backward by a rd and beg choked so severely that “all the blood vsels my face ptured” before he passed Whe the hospal shortly after his attack. “We always have homophobia southern Louisiana, so if that was a part of , I wouldn’t be surprised, ” he said.

A gay 19-year-old om a small town Mae has bee one of the youngt elected officials the US, after wng a spot on the cy uncil. Roberts, whose tw brother is also gay, told Out magaze that South Berwick is the kd of small town where “everyone knows everyone” and that had been “such a great place to grow up” as a young gay person, after g out middle school. As the only out young gay kid at my school, I took the advancement of my sexual experienc to my own hands and I did what we all do: I bought a fake ID and h the gay clubs.

THIS GAY 19-YEAR-OLD JT BEME ONE OF THE YOUNGT ELECTED OFFICIALS THE US

While I knew wouldn’t be like a gay llege eroti I’d read on (gay non, really), I rather naively wasn’t expectg the fall out.

AGE DIFFERENC GAY COUPL

I realize I fell to that old gay adage of placg my feelgs on a person who, for whatever reason, was never gog to vt them back me.

Worst of all, though, the shame attached to the memori of those first tim marred how I would approach sex for years.It was listeng to Years & Years’ new song “Sanctify,” and seeg the band’s out gay sger Olly Alexanr talk about how the song was spired his sexual trysts wh straight men, that I realized that the feelgs are way more mon than people let on. Sure, I know all about gay guys havg sex wh straight guys, but felt reassurg to see him scribe the “sat and sner role” he embodied durg those experienc, and to hear the uncertaty and melancholy weaved to the song.More than anythg though, was the repeated lyril mantra of “I won’t be ashamed.” Bee as queer people, we’re buried lifetime’s worth of shame so vivid and searg that oftentim ’s cripplg.

9 FAMO GAY MEN WH YOUNGER BOYIENDS: FROM GAY TO {FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}CELEBRIBY ALEXANR STEVENSONJULY 4, 2014/2:00 PMBY ALEXANR STEVENSONJULY 4, 2014 / 2:00 PM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"9 FAMO GAY MEN WH YOUNGER BOYIENDS: FROM GAY TO DECEMBER","DATEPUBLISHED":"2014-07-04T18:00:43.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2014-07-04T18:00:43.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"ALEXANR STEVENSON","ARTICLESECTN":"CELEBRI"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AS GAY CELEBRI BEG TO FEEL MORE FORTABLE BEG OPEN ABOUT THEIR RELATNSHIPS, WE'RE SEEG THEY'RE NOT ALL THAT DIFFERENT OM STRAIGHT STARS, WHO OFTEN DATE MUCH YOUNGER THAN THEIR {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WHEN WE LEARNED TOM DALEY’S NEW BOYIEND WAS NONE OTHER THAN OSR-WNG SCREENWRER DT LANCE BLACK, GAY TONGU STARTED WAGGG ABOUT THE UPLE’S 20-YEAR AGE GAP. OF URSE, DALEY ISN’T YOUR TYPIL 19-YEAR-OLD, AND DLB LOOKS LIKE A LN BUCKS—BUT GOT THKG ABOUT OTHER HIGH-PROFILE GAY ROMANC WH A SIGNIFINT AGE DIFFERENCE. DO SOME EXTRA EAGE ON THE ODOMETER MEAN ANYTHG WHEN YOU’RE LOVE?{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IF THE NE UPL BELOW ARE ANY DITN, THE ANSWER IS “Y, NO, AND MAYBE.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}GERALD MCCULLOUCH AND DERRICK {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE STORYBOOK ROMANCE: GORDON, 22, IS THE FIRST OPENLY GAY BASKETBALL PLAYER THE NCAA. MCCULLOUCH, 47,  IS A FORMER ST MEMBER OF CSI AND APPEARED THE DIE GAY EDY BEAR CY. THE TWO WENT PUBLIC WH THEIR RELATNSHIP AT THE NYC GLAAD MEDIA AWARDS MAY. “A NIGHT THAT I WILL NEVER FET AND A NIGHT THAT I DIDN'T WANT TO END,” GORDON TWEETED ABOUT THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}DID THEY LIVE HAPPILY EVER AFTER? LETS GIVE THE KIDS A CHANCE!{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}TOM DALEY AND DT LANCE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE STORYBOOK ROMANCE: DALEY, 20, ME OUT A HEARTFELT YOUTUBE VIO LAST YEAR, DITG WAS LOVE THAT SPARKED HIS NEWFOUND OPENNS. INIALLY HE AVOID NAMG NAM, BUT HE AND BLACK, 40, STARTED POPPG UP ON EACH OTHERS SOCIAL MEDIA, AND WH MONTHS STEPPED OUT AS A UPLE. THE MILK SCREENWRER HAS EVEN BEEN TO ENGLAND TO SPEND CHRISTMAS WH DALEY AND HIS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}DID THEY LIVE HAPPILY EVER AFTER: THGS ARE LOOKG {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}CALV KLE AND NICK {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE STORYBOOK ROMANCE: THE FASHN SIGNER WAS 67  2010, WHEN HE BEGAN DATG GBER, A 20 YEAR OLD MOL WH A GAY-PORN PAST. KLE THREW A MORE-LAVISH-THAN-LAVISH 21ST BIRTHDAY PART FOR HIS BOYTOY AT INDOCHE, A STUD 54-THEMED BASH FEATURG GUTS LIKE ANNA WTOUR, DONNA KARAN AND VERA WANG AND A KE WH 21 {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}DID THEY LIVE HAPPILY EVER AFTER? NOT QUE. KLE FALLY END THGS AFTER GBER WAS ARRTED FOR ASSLT AND DG POSSSN. IT LOOKED LIKE THEY REKDLED THE AFFAIR LAST SUMMER, BUT NOTHG ME OF {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AFTER BEG TOSSED OUT OF THE ASCENSN PARTY ON FIRE ISLAND 2013, GBER NOW CLAIMS HE’S NOT {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}NATE BERK AND JEREMIAH {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE STORYBOOK ROMANCE: INTERR SIGNER/TV PERSONALY BERK, 42, LOST HIS BOYIEND FERNANDO BENGOECHEA DURG THE  TSUNAMIS THAT VASTATED SOUTH ASIA 2004. BUT HE FOUND LOVE AGA 2012 WH TWENTYSOMETHG BRENT, A FORMER ASSISTANT TO RACHEL {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}DID THEY LIVE HAPPILY EVER AFTER? HOPEFULLY Y. THE UPLE MARRIED EARLIER THIS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}T.R. KNIGHT AND MARK {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE STORYBOOK ROMANCE: THE FORMER GREY’S ANATOMY STAR WAS 35 WHEN HE STARTED DATG THE 19-YEAR-OLD STUNT. “IT’S BOUND TO RAISE SOME EYEBROWS,” KNIGHT ADMTED TO EXTRA AT THE TIME. “BUT WE LOVE EACH OTHER.  [MARK] IS AN AMAZG GUY. I LOVE BEG AROUND HIM I LOVE WHAT WE HAVE.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}DID THEY LIVE HAPPILY EVER AFTER? ALAS, NO. WHETHER WAS THE AGE DIFFERENCE OR SOMETHG ELSE, THE GUYS EVENTUALLY SPL AND KNIGHT BEGAN SEEG PATRICK LEAHY 2010. THE UPLE MARRIED OCTOBER 2013 AFTER THREE YEARS OF {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}MARC JABS AND HARRY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE STORYBOOK ROMANCE: WHAT IS ABOUT SIGNERS AND PORN STARS? JABS, OIME HEAD OF LOUIS VUTON, STARTED A HEATED ROMANCE WH BRAZILIAN ADULT-FILM ACTOR HARRY LOUIS, SPE THEIR 26-YEAR AGE DIFFERENCE. THE TWOSOME’S URTSHIP WAS CHRONICLED NUMERO INSTAGRAM PICS AND TWTER UPDAT TAKEN EXOTIC {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}DID THEY LIVE HAPPILY EVER AFTER? TE TO FORM, LOUIS TOOK TO INSTAGRAM TO ANNOUNCE HIS AND JABS’ SPL WH A PHOTO OF THE UPLE DONE UP LIKE A SHATTERED PICTURE AME. “ME AND MARC HAVE CID NOT RRY ON WH OUR RELATNSHIP AS BOYIENDS,” HE POSTED WH THE IMAGE. “WE LOVE EACH OTHER VERY MUCH, AND THAT WAS A CISN OM BOTH!”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}OF URSE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}CHEYENNE JACKSON AND JASON {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE STORYBOOK ROMANCE: JACKSON’S SPL OM HIS PARTNER OF 13 YEARS, MONTE LAPKA, WENT PUBLIC WHEN PHOTOS OF THE 30 ROCK STAR WH A SHAVED HEAD AND LOTS OF NEW TATTOOS EMERGED ONLE.  AFTER MOVG TO WT HOLLYWOOD, JACKSON, 39, QUICKLY FOUND NEW LOVE WH THE YOUNGER LAND, AN ASPIRG {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}DID THEY LIVE HAPPILY EVER AFTER? IF JACKSON’S ALLEGED SEX TAPE IS TO BELIEVED, THEN HELL {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD AND DON {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE STORYBOOK ROMANCE: ISHERWOOD, ONE OF THE GREAT CHRONICLERS OF 20TH CENTURY GAY LIFE, WAS 48 WHEN HE MET 18-YEAR-OLD BACHARDY ON VALENTE’S DAY 1953. THE 30-YEAR AGE GAP RAISED EYEBROWS, AS DID BACHARDY’S REPUTATN AS A HTLER. BUT THEIR RELATNSHIP HELPED THE TWO MEN FLOURISH EMOTNALLY AND CREATIVELY—BACHARDY EVEN SPIRED ISHERWOOD’S A SGLE MAN: “WE’D BEEN TOGETHER 10 YEARS. I WAS MAKG A LOT OF TROUBLE AND WONRG IF I SHOULDN’T BE ON MY OWN," RELLS BACHARDY. "CHRIS WAS GOG THROUGH A VERY DIFFICULT PERD [AS WELL]. SO HE KILLED OFF MY CHARACTER, JIM, THE BOOK AND IMAGED WHAT HIS LIFE WOULD BE WHOUT ME.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}DID THEY END UP HAPPILY EVER AFTER? DPE AFFAIRS, ARGUMENTS AND SEPARATNS, BACHARDY AND ISHERWOOD REMAED TOGETHER  UNTIL ISHERWOOD’S ATH 1986. BACHARDY STILL LIV THE SANTA MONI HOME THEY SHARED FOR {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}LIBERACE AND STT {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE STORYBOOK ROMANCE: LIBERACE WAS 57 WHEN HE HIRED THORSON, 18, TO BE HIS DRIVER THE LATE 1970S AND EMBARKED ON A FIVE-YEAR ROMANCE FULL OF LAVISH PRENTS, EXOTIC VATNS… AND CREEPY PLASTIC SURGERY. THE CLOSETED ENTERTAER EVEN MANAGED TO SHOEHORN THORSON TO HIS VEGAS ACT AS A DANCER. DID THEY LIVE HAPPILY EVER AFTER? UM, DID YOU SEE BEHD THE CANLABRA?{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}JONATHAN ADLER AND SIMON {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE STORYBOOK ROMANCE: THOUGH NOW KNOWN AS THE KG OF KSCHY TERR RATG ADLER WAS A YOUNG SCULPTOR WHEN HE MET DOONAN, HEAD MERCHANDISER FOR BARNEY’S, ON A BLD DATE 1994. “THE BLOKE WHO SET UP JT HAD SOME TUN THAT WE WOULD H OFF ,” DOONANRELLED  THE NEW YORK TIM. “BUT HE BADGERED ME WH LOTS OF DIRECT QUTNS,” MR. DOONAN SAID. “IN ENGLAND PEOPLE WOULDN’T ASK A LOT OF DIRECT QUTNS.” THEY WED 2008 AFTER 14 YEARS TOGETHER. DID THEY LIVE HAPPILY EVER AFTER? AFTER NEARLY 20 YEARS AS THE SIGN WORLD’S POWER GAY COUPLE, WE’D SAY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HADRIAN AND {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE STORYBOOK ROMANCE:  ANTO BEME PART OF THE ENTOURAGE OF EMPEROR HADRIAN WHEN HE WAS STILL A BOY, BUT AT SOME POT THEIR RELATNSHIP TURNED SEXUAL. HADRIAN MARRIED AN ARISTOCRAT, VIBIA SABA, 100AD BUT THE UPLE HAD NO CHILDREN. (HIS HEIRS WERE ALL ADOPTED.) DID THEY LIVE HAPPILY EVER AFTER? TRAGILLY, ANTO DROWNED THE NILE 130 AD, SENDG HADRIAN TO NSOLABLE GRIEF. HE ORRED THE GREEK YOUTH IFIED AS A GOD AND NAMED THE EGYPTIAN CY ANTOPOLIS HIS MEMORY. ARCHAEOLOGIST RJA WILSON WROTE THAT HADRIAN “TURNED TO [GREEK SCULPTORS] TO PERPETUATE THE MELANCHOLY BETY, DIFFINT MANNER, AND LHE AND SENSUO AME OF HIS BOYIEND ANTO” WHAT HAS BEEN SCRIBED AS “THE LAST PENNT CREATN OF GRE-ROMAN ART.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS

Osborne told Time magaze Febary that he is gay and has known for years, but he kept a secret bee of untry mic's mostly nservative fan base.

- The Magaze.The world's first fe art photography magaze dited to queer and gay photography.Volume 2 - the Pri Issue featur ten photographers om ne untri: AY (UK), David Charl Colls (Atralia), Matthew Fley (USA), Ashish Gupta (India), Manuel Monyo (Mexi), Juan Anton Papagni Me (Argenta), Sebastian Perotti (Argenta), Mric A. It now reprents more than 67 photographers om 27 untri - cludg Cha, India, Iran, Poland, Rsia and Turkey where gay rights are reprsed and queer liv unr nstant threat.There have been onle and physil exhibns, and two sold out BOYS! It jt go to show that there is a market for a well-produced prt magaze showsg fe art photography by queer and gay photographers that is not jt a dick magaze!"Instagram: @TLBGallery / @ghisla.pasl / @queer_art_photography.

I WAS 19, GAY AND READY TO BE ‘CURED’ BY NVERSN THERAPY

Many quiri I have received over and over aga through the years beg somethg like this: “I've always liked olr men, but many gay iends close to my age are cril of me and spic of my motiv.

” One young man said to me, “If I see a handsome gay man my age, he might jt as well have a vaga. Var labels have been ascribed to tergeneratnal upl, whether straight, gay or bisexual: tergeneratnal, age-gap, age-discrepant, or, more often than not, “May-December” relatnships. Inially, I was unnvced the relatnships were ser, but that was bee I held stereotypil views: an olr gay man who was lookg for a trophy-mate and has the money to take re of his boy toy and a younger man who was lookg for a sugar daddy.

Based on the number of tim this qutn drops to my mailbox, the reasons for the age-discrepant attractns nsum a great al of bandwidth the thoughts of a lot of young gay and bisexual men.

NOT MY FLT I WAS BORN GAY: 19-YEAR-OLD MS SUICI OVER HOMOPHOBIA

Was pletg his doctoral dissertatn, “May-December: Navigatg Life as an Intergeneratnal Gay Couple, ” he thoroughly rearched what proved to be the limed available lerature on tergeneratnal upl. Their work will fort men the double jeopardy of beg both gay and lovg someone much olr or younger. As gay celebri beg to feel more fortable beg open about their relatnships, we're seeg they're not all that different om straight stars, who often date much younger than their we learned Tom Daley’s new boyiend was none other than Osr-wng screenwrer Dt Lance Black, gay tongu started waggg about the uple’s 20-year age gap.

MORE THAN HALF OF GENERATN Z GAY, BISEXUAL TEENAGE BOYS REPORT BEG OUT TO PARENTS

Of urse, Daley isn’t your typil 19-year-old, and DLB looks like a ln bucks—but got thkg about other high-profile gay romanc wh a signifint age difference.

GAY PRI

”Gerald McCullouch and Derrick GordonThe storybook romance: Gordon, 22, is the first openly gay basketball player the NCAA. The Milk screenwrer has even been to England to spend Christmas wh Daley and his they live happily ever after: Thgs are lookg Kle and Nick GberThe storybook romance: The fashn signer was 67 2010, when he began datg Gber, a 20 year old mol wh a gay-porn past. Christopher Isherwood and Don BachardyThe storybook romance: Isherwood, one of the great chroniclers of 20th century gay life, was 48 when he met 18-year-old Bachardy on Valente’s Day 1953.

I am buildg my ltle team, one is a soon-to-be 19 year old gay kid who grew up on the same block Kyle rtenhoe shot 3 people. I want him to have the gear he needs for SHTF, and I know he will e , but the key is that I need somethg that is also gay as fuck.

" But while muni like his have a reputatn for beg plac LGBTQ+ people pe to fd acceptance a big cy, the 19-year-old says has been "such a great place to grow up" as a young gay person. You may be homosexual, gay, or lbian if you are attracted to people of the same sex as yourself.