A Gay Men Squashg Story

Contents:

• A GAY MEN SQUASHG STORY
• 90-YEAR-OLD GRANDFATHER OUT AS GAY, SEARCH FOR LONG-LOST LOVE
• WATCH WHAT HAPPENS WHEN 'THE OLD GAYS' MEET A YOUNG FAN WHO LOV DRS

A GAY MEN SQUASHG STORY

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90-YEAR-OLD GRANDFATHER OUT AS GAY, SEARCH FOR LONG-LOST LOVE

‘Sectn 28 changed my life’: Patrick Pope (left) and David Rhos, as they appear the Centre for Ageg Better mpaign (Alexanr Camada)When Patrick, a 73-year-old gay man om Manchter, worked as a teacher a Catholic school the late Eighti, he was nonted daily by the homophobia of the era. ‘We don’t have gay people’.

Patrick is one of four LGBT+ people I spoke wh about their experienc as “gay veterans”. “I was always told on the gay scene that once you’re past 24, you’re over the hill, ” he tells me.

Sectn 28, the ernment act passed 1988 that prohibed lol thori and schools om “promotg the teachg of the acceptabily of homosexualy”, had a profound impact on Patrick.

WATCH WHAT HAPPENS WHEN 'THE OLD GAYS' MEET A YOUNG FAN WHO LOV DRS

“I was gog to have children wh my gay iend Leictershire and he died of Aids, ” Liz remembers. “At that perd, I went to so many funerals – I lost so many male gay iends.

”‘I went to so many funerals – I lost so many male gay iends’: Jo (left) and Liz (Alexanr Camada)For Jo, the troductn of equali legislatn signed to protect LGBT+ people has been paramount. “In the Seventi, Manchter’s chief of police, Jam Anrson, said that gay men ‘had g to them’ and that people wh Aids were ‘ a csp of their makg’.

Durg our nversatns, several issu me up wh regulary: a lack of specialist servic for LGBTQ+ muni, ncerns about hog and olr life re, and fears about havg to go back the closet at vulnerable pots their remembers lookg after her dad’s , a gay man, after he went to rintial re later life.