What I Learned From Datg Olr Gay Men

Contents:

• ‘COULDN’T BELIEVE I WAS SEEG ’: HOME MOVI OFFER RARE GLIMPSE OF GAY LIFE ST. LOUIS 1945
• AGE DIFFERENC GAY COUPL
• JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY
• WATCH WHAT HAPPENS WHEN 'THE OLD GAYS' MEET A YOUNG FAN WHO LOV DRS
• GAY OLD MEN AND BOYS VIOS

‘COULDN’T BELIEVE I WAS SEEG ’: HOME MOVI OFFER RARE GLIMPSE OF GAY LIFE ST. LOUIS 1945

As a gay man my early 30s I am not now attracted to children but to. Dozens of gay men gather for a pool party a seclud spot Hillsboro, Missouri. Louis filmmaker Geoff Story has begun weavg the films to a documentary, “Gay Home Movie.

” It offers a rare glimpse to a largely visible world, a time when same-sex relatnships were not only looked at as immoral — they were a gay man, Story is fascated by the brtle, flickerg scen that clu a uniformed World War II soldier kissg another man. Louis’ ‘hairdrser to the stars’Watch a clip om the 1945 home movi of gay men at a pool stumbled upon the films the mid-1990s, a half century after the pool party, at an tate sale. ”‘I kept my inty separate’Richard Eaton talks about beg a gay man mid-century St.

Several people who aren’t the home movi n ttify to what was like to be gay mid-century St. In the '60s, Eaton remembers lookg over his shoulr as he ventured to gay bars like Mart’s, near Unn Statn. Gay life, like all life St.

AGE DIFFERENC GAY COUPL

The only Ain-Amerins the pool party footage are wearg whe uniforms, servg food to the other elaborate gathergs likely were nied to gay men who were not wealthy and whe, Psaczyk said. Betty Neeley said she was never the closet and that her mother even drove her to first gay bar. The hntg imag are nfirmatn that gay men did live and love at a time when no one dared to even speak of same-sex attractn.

JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY

Photographs by Matthew MorrocLike many gay men searchg for timacy the morn day, the photographer Matthew Morroc has found his share of onle. Many of his panns had survived both the AIDS crisis and heights of homophobia unknown to younger generatns. 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.

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

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. 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.

GAY OLD MEN AND BOYS VIOS

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