Intergeneratnal Friendships Among Gay Men: Rare But Important

age differences in gay relationships

Gay datg culture n be que difficult to navigate. We recently saw a nversatn about age surface on social media when media personaly Somizi Mhlongo revealed that he was datg someone almost twice as young as him.

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AGE DIFFERENC GAY COUPL

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.

AGE DIFFERENC GAY COUPL

” One young man said to me, “If I see a handsome gay man my age, he might jt as well have a vaga.

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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.

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I now regnize this as a hackneyed ia that furiat men age-gap gay relatnships.

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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. 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. They nsir discrimatn a part of beg gay.

AGE DIFFERENC GAY COUPL

Their work will fort men the double jeopardy of beg both gay and lovg someone much olr or younger. Gay datg culture n be que difficult to navigate. Acrdg to a recent Mambaonle poll, 61% of gay men said they’d dated guys ten years and olr than them, but there seems to be a belief that people opt to date olr men bee of their social pal.

Is ageism an issue wh the gay muny? Mambaonle spoke to young people to fd out if age matters or should matter gay relatnships.

I don’t thk really matters and I thk every gay person should experiment, to know what exactly they want, to see if they’re pable or suable to be a relatnship wh someone who is olr. Gay people are all over and everywhere.

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