is a muny for olr gay men and the men who love them.
Contents:
- AGE DIFFERENC GAY COUPL
- THE CURSE OF AN ATTRACTN TO OLR GAY MEN
- HOW TO EMBRACE AGG AS A GAY MAN
- 6 - SEX AND OLR GAY MEN
- OLR AND YOUNGER GAY MEN
- SOME OLR GAY MEN DATE YOUNGER PARTNERS – BUT THE REASONS ARE MORE PLEX THAN YOU THK
AGE DIFFERENC GAY COUPL
The director of Call Your Father says his attractn to olr guys exposed a rarely discsed universal tth about gay men. * older younger gay men *
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.
THE CURSE OF AN ATTRACTN TO OLR GAY MEN
* older younger gay men *
” 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.
HOW TO EMBRACE AGG AS A GAY MAN
When so many gay men have spent their formative years the closet, ’s difficult to pe the feelg that you need to make up for lost time. * older younger gay men *
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.
6 - SEX AND OLR GAY MEN
Young For Old Men - This is a group for young gay men that like olr gay men. Talk, ask qutns, meet,and have fun. Anythg go. * older younger gay men *
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. Gass is a gay man whose only sexual attractn is to men signifintly olr than he is.
The younger men have more tert sports than their partners and their gay peers who are attracted to men their own age. The younger men tend to be more mascule than their gay peers who are attracted to men their own age. He wrote, “I stggle more to expla my attractn to olr gay men to my gay iends than I do to my straight iends.
” No one has llected reliable statistics, but age dispary seems to occur more equently gay relatnships than heterosexual on. But the se of a celebry, the tabloid headl the labels may be ed sensatnalistic ways, or even clu more vilently homophobic nam like pedophile and predatory pervert.
OLR AND YOUNGER GAY MEN
” I was once asked by a young gay man, “Why did you e out at 40?
But the gay upl may be far more sexually active than many same-sex upl.
SOME OLR GAY MEN DATE YOUNGER PARTNERS – BUT THE REASONS ARE MORE PLEX THAN YOU THK
It has been suggted that satisfyg sex nnot occur whout wet kiss and swellg ans, which rc gay sexualy to nothg more than sex, and impli that olr men are pable of havg erectns. One recurrg qutn remas: “How n a man have a mutually satisfyg sex life wh a wife and then have a sudn revelatn that he’s gay? Don’t this ntradict the ia that gay people are ‘born this way’?
I don’t believe we have a choice about our sexual attractns, but gay men and women—jt as any heterosexual person—have a choice about how they rpond to sexual sire.