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Contents:

• 6 - SEX AND OLR GAY MEN
• OLD GAY MEN STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG
• COMBATTG THE VISIBILY OF OLR GAY MEN
• THE CURSE OF AN ATTRACTN TO OLR GAY MEN
• AGE DIFFERENC GAY COUPL
• I’M 43 – BUT I’M MA TO FEEL LIKE A DOSR BY YOUNGER GAY MEN

6 - SEX AND OLR GAY MEN

Photographs by Matthew MorrocLike many gay men searchg for timacy the morn day, the photographer Matthew Morroc has found his share of onle.

Many of his panns had survived both the AIDS crisis and heights of homophobia unknown to younger generatns.

If you've been lookg for a way to meet other OlrGay members near you, you n now schle a meetup to get everyone together. As his name suggts, Otterj draws his greatt spiratn om the slenr, hairy, beard, and often tattooed gay male subculture known as otters -- but not exclively. The men his photographs are unabashed exhibnists lookg for a place to f to a gay culture that has creasgly turned s back on a sexually aware world where leather and cisg are forms of liberatn.

OLD GAY MEN STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG

WE ARE an all-male clothg optnal bed and breakfast retreat terg to gay, bi, and straight men 21 years or olr. WE ARE A GROUP OF GAY MEN, more or ls fifty-five or olr, who have assembled to support each other beg gay elrs. We e om a wi range of backgrounds and are uned our primary purpose of beg eful to younger gay men and of service to the gay and larger muny.

The GAY ELDER CIRCLE is signed to assist gay men and others to make the transn om adult to elr, the procs nscly assumg a new role the muny—a life of ntug efulns to to others wh the ntext of group support, enuragement, and genue brotherhood. IntroductnAt the heart of this chapter are the stori of 11 gay men, aged 43–71, who spoke about adventuro sexual enunters wh strangers.

Both narrativ clud evince of the effects of ageism and loss, how the are exprsed, and, le wh the work of Simpson (2015), how they n be chapter rts on stori appearg across three books that the thor has wrten on gay men's life stori and which foc on age and ageg.

COMBATTG THE VISIBILY OF OLR GAY MEN

The first (Robson, 2008) ncerned three generatns of Atralian gay men, aged 22–79, and how changg social norms affected the ease wh which they uld be public about their sexualy. The send nsired how age and ageg affected gay men's relatnships (Robson, 2013). Based on material om an ternatnal sample of men aged 20–87, examed long-term relatnships, fatherhood, var lived experienc of sgle men and generatnal differenc regardg gay marriage.

THE CURSE OF AN ATTRACTN TO OLR GAY MEN

The third book (Robson, 2017) looked at gay men's workg liv om the perspective of three generatns of gay men om the same ternatnal sample, as well as their views and experienc on retirement om paid work and on old age/later central argument this chapter is that while ageg gay men do acquire and n ll on ‘rourc of ageg’ (Heaphy, 2007) to bat gay ageism, the are limed by the nstrats imposed by their ageg bodi and how the are unrstood. He dulged me by followg Lra Dern around stead of lookg at the garns, which was fely not the first time she had been stalked by gay men at a garn party.

AGE DIFFERENC GAY COUPL

This kd of thg happened a uple dozen more tim my early I started wrg my short film Call Your Father, I wanted to not jt wre mentary on gay men, but I also wanted to figure out why I was nsistently drawn to guys around that age. I thk 's somethg gay men don't talk about enough. From the moment you realize as a gay man who you are, whether 's a challengg procs or not, you know (maybe subnscly) that a lot of the world hat you.

Most gay men never reach the end of this procs, and many never characters Call Your Father stggle eply wh nfince -- a stggle on one si maniftg self real mental health issu and on the other maniftg a lack of nnectn to the world and himself. The gay nfince issue is both sad and tertg to me. I thk 's what mak gay men so betiful but also troublg.

I thk I uld do well wh FIRSTMAN is the director of Call Your Father, a short film about an tergeneratnal gay date. Why are gay men over 50 beg erased by our culture? About a year ago, after five years work, endls rewr and table readgs, a film-ftival award, and put om gay iends the dtry, I fally took a ep breath and sent my queer-themed s pilot, “Life After Death, ” to agents and producers.

I’M 43 – BUT I’M MA TO FEEL LIKE A DOSR BY YOUNGER GAY MEN

The reactns were swift and mercils, one (gay) agent wrg me that, although the show was funny, the characters were praved, the language vile, the sexual referenc unthkable for a mastream, albe ble TV, dience. The show, about a fifty-year-old gay man stgglg to overe alholism, narcissism, and a sex-addicted past, and set agast the backdrop of his tumblg L. Wrg reer, wasn’t meant to be the next “This Is Us” or even “Lookg, ” a rare age-iendly dramedy filled wh gay sex scen.

Although I’ve been wrg forever—wh all the sults such a reer volv—and have penned four screenplays the past two years, the cricisms for this piece h me like bricks bee they were a direct afont to the last generatn of unbridled, yet rtricted, gay men who’ve survived spe a former panmic’s sire to kill every last one. Wh the rise of TV anti-hero like Tony Soprano and Walter Whe, and a fondns for darker, more plited characters general, I thought, naively, that a mature, gay male lead would be weled the same manner.

In “The Flight Attendant, ” hero Cassie Bown (Kaley Christe Cuo) guzzl vodka and one-night-stands her way around the globe, but she at least has her sated, gay, married wh children, olr brother, Davey (T. Supportg gays as sats or sners are always wele. But show a grown gay man happily adm to takg Tvada and ’s like you’ve set the TV set on fire.