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Contents:
- HOW TO COPE WHEN YOU'RE GAY AND LONELY
- A GAY MAN AT MIDLIFE PONRS BEG LONELY AND ‘INVISIBLE’
- GAY, MIDDLE-AGED, AND LONELY AS HELL
- THE LONELS OF BEG GAY A STRAIGHT MARRIAGE
- I'M LONELY AND GAY
- GAY AND CAN'T FD A PARTNER?
- GAY PEOPLE 'AT RISK OF A LONELIER OLD AGE'
- SAVAGE LOVE: I AM A LONELY, AGG GAY MAN; WHAT SHOULD I DO?
HOW TO COPE WHEN YOU'RE GAY AND LONELY
Advice on how to nont ageism the gay muny spe earlier loss and how to avoid beg alone. * i lonely and gay *
Part of realizg you're gay, or bi, or trans, or non-bary, or anythg other than cisgenr and heterosexual is acceptg you’re different—and somewhat separated—om the majory. Here he shar his journey to overe the sense of isolatn he felt growg up gay a small U.
A GAY MAN AT MIDLIFE PONRS BEG LONELY AND ‘INVISIBLE’
To be a gay man a straight marriage is to be disnnected om self. Let's read my iend Andrew Reid's story. * i lonely and gay *
At the time, there were no real gay role mols except for Graham Norton and Jack om Dawson's Creek—and I certaly didn't intify wh him bee I wasn't a football player. I felt like I was pletely on my rried on until I was 16, when I started gog out to gay bars my hometown.
GAY, MIDDLE-AGED, AND LONELY AS HELL
Eric Bach is an openly gay broadster for the Frericksburg Natnals. He has major league aspiratns, but his path has been much lonelier than he would prefer. * i lonely and gay *
I ma one gay iend, who I'm actually close to now.
THE LONELS OF BEG GAY A STRAIGHT MARRIAGE
In today’s advice lumn ¡Hola Papi! by John Pl Brammer, we addrs how shallowns and gay culture have all too much mon. * i lonely and gay *
For the first time I've been able to form a good group of gay iends and create my own support work. I'd go on gay chatrooms but that was jt a facels nversatn wh someone who uld have been anyone.
I'M LONELY AND GAY
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I thk if I'd had iends who were gay when I was growg up, my life would have been so different.
GAY AND CAN'T FD A PARTNER?
I now know there were other kids at my school who were gay, but they didn't e out till much later. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTCivil Shenlman/Queer Lens PhotographyMarch 19, 2013Every other Tuday, Steven Petrow, the thor of “Steven Petrow’s Complete Gay & Lbian Manners, ” (Workman, 2011), addrs qutns about gay and straight etiquette for a boomer-age dience.
GAY PEOPLE 'AT RISK OF A LONELIER OLD AGE'
Send qutns for Civil Behavr to Dear Civil Behavr: Your ment a recent lumn about gays at midlife fdg themselv “sudnly visible — aged out by the young, rtls and betiful” ronated loudly wh me. I live Philalphia, which has a reasonably sized gay muny, yet I feel like an outsir.
Dear Stephen: Believe me, I unrstand “the middle ag” n be difficult for anyone, gay or straight.
” The abily to lgh — and lgh at ourselv — is key to our, there are some unual and disproportnate challeng to agg wh the gay muny that your experienc highlight.
SAVAGE LOVE: I AM A LONELY, AGG GAY MAN; WHAT SHOULD I DO?
” Addg salt to the wounds, a 2004 study, “Old, Gay, and Alone? ” reported that 44 percent of olr gay men “feel disnnected om or even unweled by younger generatns of L.
(This might also help expla why the suatn is more difficult for gay men than is for lbians: The study I noted prevly showed that lbians “tend to have works that were more rilient and showed ls fluctuatn rponse to chang wh agg, ” probably bee their support works were not nearly as vastated by H.