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.
Contents:
- AGE DIFFERENC GAY COUPL
- AGE DIFFERENC GAY COUPL
- GAY DATG | YOUNG PEOPLE ON AGE DIFFERENCE GAY RELATNSHIPS
- AGE DIFFERENC GAY COUPL
- DECISN MAKG AND AGE DIFFERENC AMONG GAY MALE UPL
- I’M 35 AND MY BT IEND IS 64. HERE’S WHY OUR AGE DIFFERENCE AS GAY MEN IS A GIFT
- DO AGE DIFFERENCE AFFECT RELATNSHIPS A GAY COUPLE?
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. ” One young man said to me, “If I see a handsome gay man my age, he might jt as well have a vaga. 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. I now regnize this as a hackneyed ia that furiat men age-gap gay relatnships. 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.
AGE DIFFERENC GAY COUPL
They nsir discrimatn a part of beg gay. Their work will fort men the double jeopardy of beg both gay and lovg someone much olr or younger.
For gay men, age is many thgs: ’s fetishized, ’s feared, reprents our succs and our failur, our self-worth and our worth to others. Do you have experience wh gay datg wh an age difference? Gay datg culture n be que difficult to navigate.
GAY DATG | YOUNG PEOPLE ON AGE DIFFERENCE GAY RELATNSHIPS
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.
AGE DIFFERENC GAY COUPL
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.
DECISN MAKG AND AGE DIFFERENC AMONG GAY MALE UPL
Gay people are all over and everywhere. Ageism is a real thg the gay muny.
I’M 35 AND MY BT IEND IS 64. HERE’S WHY OUR AGE DIFFERENCE AS GAY MEN IS A GIFT
The more money you have, the more optns ( terms of datg) you have, bee a lot of gay people will overlook their prerequis if you have money.
DO AGE DIFFERENCE AFFECT RELATNSHIPS A GAY COUPLE?
Well, not jt gay people…. The datg pool is limed generally wh the gay muny bee sirabily is based on certa standards of bety, class (and tn), etc. I don’t thk the cricism that they (Somizi and Mohlale) are facg as a uple is unique to them as a gay uple.