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GAY AND GREY MONTREAL: HOW ONE GROUP HELPS OLR LGBTQ+ CROWD FD MUNY

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We would like to beg by acknowledgg that Gay and Grey Montréal is loted on unced Indigeno lands. Here is the vio for Gay and Grey Montreal. 3 FM at Look for April 18, 2023: Spoken Word Coordator Jack terviews members of Gay & Grey Montreal.

Gay and Grey Montreal is a social, mutual aid and sensizatn work for English-speakg 2S. + senrs, while promotg appropriate servic a posive, rg environment for 2-spired, lbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, tersex, asexual and anyone who intifi as belongg wh this rabow umbrella who live Montreal and Quebec. Gay and Grey Montreal promot a liftyle where 2S.

Gil Hymer was 16 years old when he me out of the he left home, he met his partner through a nscns-raisg group the gay muny. While bars the Gay Village are an optn for younger people, the olr generatn are often left whout a space to nnect wh others their own, however, found support through a group lled Gay and Grey Montreal, a social group for people 50 and over who are meet for barbecu, go out for walks, and offer a safe space for people to be themselv. Members of Gay and Grey Montreal have their weekly lunch meetg through Zoom.

GAY AND GRAY

In the absence of accurate rmatn, Amerin culture has upheld a distorted view of what means to be an olr gay man. Gay and Gray is the first and only * gay and grey *

"Bce Cameron found Gay and Grey 2018.

The goal was to unteract the homophobia that some senrs might experience as they get olr, and to allow them to teract fortably wh people of the same orientatn, genr inty, or who share siar Cameron found Grey and Gay Montreal to give LGBTQ+ people over the age of 50 a muny.

"They have to be ncerned aga about people beg homophobic, " he says. "Special Report'We're gog back to the closet': LGBTQ senrs wary of beg 'out' long-term re faciliThrough Gay and Grey, Cameron also hop to fight ageism that exists wh the LGBTQ+ muny.

GAY AND GREY THE SPRGS 2023!

In the absence of accurate rmatn, Amerin culture has upheld a distorted view of what means to be an olr gay man. Gay and Gray is the first and only * gay and grey *

"The olr generatn, they lived through gay liberatn. They remember a time when beg themselv was actually illegal, " Nikki Mach, an outreach -ordator for Gay and Grey, explas. At the time, the provce of Quebec did not regnize gay upl' rights to the members of Gay and Grey have a msage for young people who may be stgglg to e out of the Cameron puts : "Be proud of who you are.

Bce Cameron, founr of Gay and Grey Montreal, is tryg to change that. In the absence of accurate rmatn, Amerin culture has upheld a distorted view of what means to be an olr gay man.

WHERE DO YOU LIVE WHEN YOU’RE GAY AND GRAY?

Gay and Gray is the first and only scholarly full-length treatment of olr gay men Ameri today.

It breaks the stereotype that olr gay men are strange, lonely creatur and reveals that most olr gay men are well-adjted to their homosexualy and the agg send edn ntas four new chapters that prent addnal perspectiv on the realy of gay agg. Mnigero’s study shows that olr gay men do not perceive themselv as growg old faster than their heterosexual unterparts, and that forty is the age at which most gay men believe that the label “young” no longer appli--this fdg led Berger and other rearchers to fe “olr” gay men as those over forty.

Pope and Schulz nfirm Berger’s fdg that for most olr gay men a ntuatn of sexual activy and sexual enjoyment is the norm.