I am a gay man my late 50s and have never been a relatnship. I am so lonely, and the paful empts I feel is beg absolutely unbearable.
Contents:
- GAY, MIDDLE-AGED, AND LONELY AS HELL
- SAVAGE LOVE: I AM A LONELY, AGG GAY MAN; WHAT SHOULD I DO?
- A GAY MAN AT MIDLIFE PONRS BEG LONELY AND ‘INVISIBLE’
- GAY AND CAN'T FD A PARTNER?
GAY, MIDDLE-AGED, AND LONELY AS HELL
* i am gay and lonely *
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.K.
SAVAGE LOVE: I AM A LONELY, AGG GAY MAN; WHAT SHOULD I DO?
Advice on how to nont ageism the gay muny spe earlier loss and how to avoid beg alone. * i am gay and lonely *
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 own.This rried on until I was 16, when I started gog out to gay bars my hometown.
A GAY MAN AT MIDLIFE PONRS BEG LONELY AND ‘INVISIBLE’
For the first time I've been able to form a good group of gay iends and create my own support work.
GAY AND CAN'T FD A PARTNER?
I'd go on gay chatrooms but that was jt a facels nversatn wh someone who uld have been anyone. I thk if I'd had iends who were gay when I was growg up, my life would have been so different. I now know there were other kids at my school who were gay, but they didn't e out till much later.
For years I’ve noticed the divergence between my straight iends and my gay iends. In our lifetime, the gay muny has ma more progrs on legal and social acceptance than any other mographic group history. As recently as my own adolcence, gay marriage was a distant aspiratn, somethg newspapers still put sre quot.