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• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• KEV SPACEY: I N’T TELL WHETHER MEN ARE GAY JT BY LOOKG AT THEM
• JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY
• MATURE OLD GAY MAN PORN VIOS
• MATURE OLD GAY PORN VIOS
• AGE DIFFERENC GAY COUPL
• THE CURSE OF AN ATTRACTN TO OLR GAY MEN

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

Per Outsports, Maxen is the “first publicly out male ach a major Amerin men’s pro sports league, ” wh WNBA ach Curt Miller, who publicly me out to the media as gay 2015, also a publicly out male ach an Amerin profsnal sports league. Osr-wng actor Kev Spacey has said he is attracted to mascule men but is not able to tell whether someone is gay jt by lookg at cross-examatn durg his trial on sex abe charg, the Hollywood star nied he was a “sexual bully” and told the jury he did not have a “power wand” to make people want to sleep wh about his sexual preferenc, Mr Spacey said he had prevly had romantic enunters wh men who would not scribe themselv as homosexual. Adam* said was dangero to e out as gay his home untry and feared beg forced to an arranged marriage wh a said he was "so lucky" to wed his soulmate, Ray, Manchter and wish everyone uld marry who they love.

There are more than 60 untri wh laws that crimalise same-sex sexual acts acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn, cludg Sdi Arabia.

'Authentilly myself'Ray said he had also stggled growg up gay the 1970s and 80s England, which was "tough" said his relig school "dmmed to you, 'you are gog to hell'" Adam returned home to Sdi Arabia, spe beg more than 3, 000 apart and later rtricted by the Covid-19 panmic, they kept touch daily and the romance years ago, Ray proposed on a vio ll and after succsfully applyg for a UK fiancé visa, Adam moved to Manchter December 2022. Adam said he had been aaid to even wear lours his home untry so the first thg he did when he moved was start to "grow my mullet, got my ears pierced and booked appotments for tattoos" relled how, ntrast, one of his gay iends Sdi had been forced to marry a woman, addg: "It has ed not only his life but the life of his wife. The uple, who live London, said a "really betiful memory" was on the way home when one of their sons shouted out of the black b wdow to Trafalgar Square, "My dads jt got married" and cheered "Yay, gay marriage".

KEV SPACEY: I N’T TELL WHETHER MEN ARE GAY JT BY LOOKG AT THEM

Photographs by Matthew MorrocLike many gay men searchg for timacy the morn day, the photographer Matthew Morroc has found his share of onle. 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. 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.

JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY

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. 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.

To vtigate the realy behd the stereotype I reviewed 19 books published between 1996 and 2014, all of which al whole and part wh sexualy gay men 50 years of age or olr. Individual experienc vary, of urse, but many gay men have good relatnships wh their children and, turn, wh their grandchildren. ” This stigma is pronounced the gay muny, given s emphasis on youth and physil bety men who bought to the nventnal standards of gay attractivens, agg n be terrifyg.

Gay men, like creasg numbers of persons the general populatn, are shiftg their views of agg towards seeg as potentially full and rich. In addn to ncerns about HIV, gay men are subject to the ills the flh is heir to: heart disease, ncer, arthris and other diseas.

MATURE OLD GAY MAN PORN VIOS

In one study almost 40% of gay men over 50 acknowledged sexual difficulti a typil year, wh two–thirds of the problems stemmg om blogil . Instead of a quick asm, gay men this age group reach for what one thor lls, “passn, creativy, and patience” their sexual life. Brian’s webse is He tends to expand his theraptic reach by terviewg gay men who are dog well their liv, sexually and otherwise.

He dulged me by followg Lra Dern around stead of lookg at the garns, which was fely not the first time she had been stalked by gay men at a garn party.

MATURE OLD GAY PORN VIOS

This kd of thg happened a uple dozen more tim my early I started wrg my short film Call Your Father, I wanted to not jt wre mentary on gay men, but I also wanted to figure out why I was nsistently drawn to guys around that age. From the moment you realize as a gay man who you are, whether 's a challengg procs or not, you know (maybe subnscly) that a lot of the world hat you. Most gay men never reach the end of this procs, and many never characters Call Your Father stggle eply wh nfince -- a stggle on one si maniftg self real mental health issu and on the other maniftg a lack of nnectn to the world and himself.

AGE DIFFERENC GAY COUPL

It draws on the notn of IT inty—the extent to which dividuals experience technology as tegral to their sense of selv—to explore how their homosexualy and advanced age shape their relatnships wh technology.

Applyg thematic analysis to 17 semi-stctured, -pth terviews wh gay male ers aged 66–81, we show that while homosexualy and technology enable and rerce one another, the relatnship between technology and advanced age n be better fed by alienatn and trangement. In this sense, technology is siar to other cultural nstcts, like sexualy, that challenge the merger of advanced age and homosexualy, renrg the olr gay inty almost impossible.

THE CURSE OF AN ATTRACTN TO OLR GAY MEN

Rearch about agg LGBTQ+ people has proliferated over the past four s (Fredriksen-Goldsen & Mura, 2010), generally fueled by the assumptn that the merger of two margalized inti—gay and olr—produc unique life experienc stemmg om the “plex terplay of ageism and homophobia” (Kner, 2016, p. Efforts exerted to unrstand olr gays’ experienc and reali have rulted a rich body of knowledge, cludg numero books (Harley & Teaster, 2015; Kimmel, Rose, & David, 2006; Kner, 2016) and review articl (Choi & Meyer, 2016; Fenkl, 2012; Fredriksen-Goldsen & Mura, 2010). Numero studi have monstrated the central role of ICT the rout of gay and olr people, separately (Marciano, 2014; Nimrod, 2017), ually potg out the ways the rpective margalized groups e technology to improve their liv.

Although agg gays face unique challeng bee of the batn of their age and sexualy, the potential role of technology pg wh the challeng has ped scholarly attentn so far. G., Biggs, 1997; Cook, 2018) or examed how gay people, ually adolcents, negotiate their queer inti om a psychologil pot of view (Rt, 2003). However, rearch about inty work among olr gays is rare and the studi available are limed spe (Rosenfeld, 1999 is a notable exceptn) study addrs the gaps by explorg the terplay among homosexualy, advanced age, and technology.