We speak to those who self-intify as gaycels about datg apps, gay stereotyp, and body shamg
Contents:
- HOW TO COPE WHEN YOU'RE GAY AND LONELY
- GAY, MIDDLE-AGED, AND LONELY AS HELL
- “I REALIZED I WAS GAY”: 29 MEN IN THIS ONLE GROUP WHO CAME OUT LATER IN LIFE SHARE WHAT WAS THEIR TURNG POT
- INVTIGATG THE SID RISE OF THE GAY CEL
HOW TO COPE WHEN YOU'RE GAY AND LONELY
Men on r/AskGaybrosOver30 have been sharg stori of how they me out later life and what was the turng pot for them. * reddit 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.
GAY, MIDDLE-AGED, AND LONELY AS HELL
* reddit 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 REALIZED I WAS GAY”: 29 MEN IN THIS ONLE GROUP WHO CAME OUT LATER IN LIFE SHARE WHAT WAS THEIR TURNG POT
But for someone who tri to be sgle and celibate and also happens to be gay is easy to feel lonely, unloved, and abadoned. In our lifetime, the gay muny has ma more progrs on legal and social acceptance than any other mographic group history. Still, even as we celebrate the sle and speed of this change, the rat of prsn, lonels and substance abe the gay muny rema stuck the same place they’ve been for s.
In a survey of gay men who recently arrived New York Cy, three-quarters suffered om anxiety or prsn, abed dgs or alhol or were havg risky sex—or some batn of the three.
INVTIGATG THE SID RISE OF THE GAY CEL
“Marriage equaly and the chang legal stat were an improvement for some gay men, ” says Christopher Stults, a rearcher at New York Universy who studi the differenc mental health between gay and straight men.