The Old Gays are gettg a doceri! Here's what we know

Contents:

• HOW 4 GAY SENRS BEME SOCIAL MEDIA STARS FOR THEIR HUMOR AND HEART
• 'THE OLD GAYS' MEET A YOUNG FAN HEARTWARMG MOMENT
• THE OLD GAYS ARE GETTG THEIR OWN DOCERI! HERE'S WHAT WE KNOW

HOW 4 GAY SENRS BEME SOCIAL MEDIA STARS FOR THEIR HUMOR AND HEART

The Old Gays — y, that's what they’re lled — never knew this latt chapter their liv would be so rewardg or that they uld bee famo for jt beg themselv. ”Based Cathedral Cy, California, right outsi the LGBTQ enclave of Palm Sprgs, the foursome of gay men, who range age om the mid-60s to late 70s, were already iends when the datg app Grdr began g them as subjects vios back 2018. 4 ln followers on TikTok, the Old Gays are jt startg to thk of themselv as fluencers, even though that self is ncept that is still slightly foreign to them.

“I thk the most important thg that we're tg people on is that 60 years ago, g out was a real stggle, ” add Lyons, who never openly me out out to his parents, even though he knew all his life he was gay. In fact, a lot of suatns, I heard when parents found out that one of their children was gay, they kicked him out of the hoe right away.

”old gays (Jon Premosch for TODAY)Meanwhile Mart believ they’re tg people on “beg human. ”“Old gays are really no different than younger gays. Reev quickly answers that there are a “multu of reasons” that the Old Gays have bee an ter sensatn.

'THE OLD GAYS' MEET A YOUNG FAN HEARTWARMG MOMENT

“When I read the ments, many of the younger generatn have adopted an an in of the olr gay generatn, to which they feel a great btedns bee the stris that have been ma over the past few s, ” he explaed. ”“Another factor is they no longer fear gettg old, particularly gettg old as a gay person, bee when they see havg so much fun about life at our age, giv them hope. ”The ments sectn of the Old Gays YouTube and TikTok vios are full of young fans and followers extollg their love for them.

Their most popular vio, “Old Gays Look Back At Their Younger Selv, ” has almost 10 ln views and a ltle more than 16, 500 ments. ”“I want to have a nversatn wh the guys and them to be my bt iends, ” another Old Gays still create ntent for Grdr while buildg up their own social media platforms. (Jon Premosch for TODAY)But the LGBTQ muny, many gay men aren’t terted formg tergeneratnal nnectns.

As a gay man myself, I’ve seen firsthand that when olr men at bars try to strike up nversatns wh younger people, even wh platonic tentns, they’ll often be Old Gays seek to bridge the dialogue gap between the generatns g the ter, while also givg more visibily to their own peer group after so many died durg the AIDS epimic of the '80s and '90s.

THE OLD GAYS ARE GETTG THEIR OWN DOCERI! HERE'S WHAT WE KNOW

“And maybe they learn not to ignore the old gay at the bar next time. They’re all gay. Michael "Mick" Peterson, Bill Lyons, Robert Reev and Jsay Mart –– better known as TikTok's beloved "The Old Gays" –– met wh 6-year-old Evan McLeod and his mom, Eeka, and they were drsed for the ocsn.

The prosecutn asserted that he had searched for gay porn on his puter and later leted before police uld search his drive. All of the homosexual evince…however was ed, would have been unduly prejudicial to the fense. Per Psychology Today, 2013 — only five years ago — a Universy Of Ptsburgh study showed that both straight and gay people had a negative nnotatn of bisexuals, and “many showed ltle sympathy" for would hope that today’s world, sexual orientatn wouldn’t be ed as evince of an unrelated crime.

Gay porn had been found on his puter, as well as emails back and forth between Michael and a male sex worker named Brent Wolgamott.