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
- 6 - SEX AND OLR GAY MEN
- HOW TO EMBRACE AGG AS A GAY MAN
AGE DIFFERENC GAY COUPL
* older gay men with 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.
THE CURSE OF AN ATTRACTN TO OLR GAY MEN
The director of Call Your Father says his attractn to olr guys exposed a rarely discsed universal tth about gay men. * older gay men with younger gay men *
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.
6 - SEX AND OLR GAY MEN
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
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. 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.