Whether you're sgle aga or you've been around the block, gay datg isn't easy.
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AT 60 YEARS OLD, I BEME VISIBLE. GETTG OLD AS A GAY MAN STKS.
The director of Call Your Father says his attractn to olr guys exposed a rarely discsed universal tth about gay men. * gay dating over 60 *
As a gay man who recently turned 60, I’m pretty sure my life is over. Y, ’s possible that the grayg templ, eye wrkl and extra paddg – which has extguished my dream of ever havg discernible abs – have also hered a new era of so, the virtual visibily wh which I n currently walk through a gay gym or neighborhood is a new experience, and feels like a forced week, as I slathered myself wh anti-wrkle cream, I examed my body expectg to fd a tattooed expiratn date announcg that I’d joed the club of olr gay men who have small dner parti, where they reunt their glory days and pla about the current generatn of their unterparts who fail to give them the rpect they an 'A-gay' worldMuch of what I’m about to say cuts agast everythg I was tght and mostly believe that the substance of a person is all that is important – so I expect to regret this lumn, but am pelled to wre nohels. SternI was never an “A-gay” – a hotns equivalent of the universal blood type.
But I had a particular niche of mutual attractn and, at the risk of soundg like I lack all huy, I miss the attentn at the gym, the ee drks at the bars and the extra chicken wg I ed to fd my greasy rryout bag when I got that I’ve stepped , please dulge me the wallow: Many gay men place a premium on physil bety.
Of urse, all people feel anxiety about their bodi, but even a 2016 study found gay men are more likely than heterosexual men to report feelg prsure to look attractive. Opns your box: Get a digt of our tak on current events every dayThat’s not tend to say that gay men do not value and support tellectual pursus, close iendships and other matters of substance.
THE GAY MAN'S GUI TO DATG AFTER 50
It's outrageo to joke about hateful gay slurs are celebry exceptns to the “get olr and disappear” le. And there you have ; we were four olr gay men relivg our glory days and plag about the baby gays who were not givg the rpect we served – or at least to which we’d bee acctomed.
To rpond to a lumn, subm a ment to article origally appeared on USA TODAY: Gay men should be able to age gracefully like everyone else.