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• 6 - SEX AND OLR GAY MEN
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• 21 BOOKS EVERY GAY MAN NEEDS TO READ RIGHT NOW

6 - SEX AND OLR GAY MEN

Gay Erotic Stori. 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. 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).

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

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 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. Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay.

21 BOOKS EVERY GAY MAN NEEDS TO READ RIGHT NOW

Per Outsports, as of September 2022, there have only ever been 16 players NFL history to publicly e out as gay or bisexual.