Stori by, for, and/or about Gay and Bi Young People.
Contents:
- 6 - SEX AND OLR GAY MEN
- WHEN I'M OLD AND GAY
- GROWG OLD AS A GAY MAN: HOW LIFE HAS CHANGED FOR THE GAY LIBERATN GENERATN
6 - SEX AND OLR GAY MEN
Growg old as a gay man: how life has changed for the gay liberatn generatn - Volume 35 Issue 10 * old gay org *
A Gay Man Speaks Out.
IntroductnAt the heart of this chapter are the stori of 11 gay men, aged 43–71, who spoke about adventuro sexual enunters wh strangers. Both narrativ clud evince of the effects of ageism and loss, how the are exprsed, and, le wh the work of Simpson (2015), how they n be chapter rts on stori appearg across three books that the thor has wrten on gay men's life stori and which foc on age and ageg. The first (Robson, 2008) ncerned three generatns of Atralian gay men, aged 22–79, and how changg social norms affected the ease wh which they uld be public about their sexualy.
WHEN I'M OLD AND GAY
The send nsired how age and ageg affected gay men's relatnships (Robson, 2013). Based on material om an ternatnal sample of men aged 20–87, examed long-term relatnships, fatherhood, var lived experienc of sgle men and generatnal differenc regardg gay marriage. The third book (Robson, 2017) looked at gay men's workg liv om the perspective of three generatns of gay men om the same ternatnal sample, as well as their views and experienc on retirement om paid work and on old age/later central argument this chapter is that while ageg gay men do acquire and n ll on ‘rourc of ageg’ (Heaphy, 2007) to bat gay ageism, the are limed by the nstrats imposed by their ageg bodi and how the are unrstood.
She and Sue hadn't thought about settlg down wh other gay people until they learned about Careee Cove. A planned rintial muny for olr gay men, lbians, and transgenred people, "the Cove" was then an empty 165-acre plot 20 outsi of Boone, a small universy town the Blue Ridge Mountas. The gay retirement villas sproutg up at the turn of the lennium were far more mercial-and planned-than those early "gayborhoods, " but at a basic level what they offered was siar: sulatn om prejudice, plac where queer people were ee to be queer.
GROWG OLD AS A GAY MAN: HOW LIFE HAS CHANGED FOR THE GAY LIBERATN GENERATN
Wh the baby-boomer generatn on the cp of retirement and the enomy chuggg along at full speed, gay and lbian entreprenrs saw an opportuny to create retreats for people like themselv and sh on the emergg market of 1. 5 ln gay elrly (and growg).
Earlier mols of all-gay muni were nsirably more stere and typilly women-only. While a handful of gay men want nothg to do wh the other rints-"the boys at the top of the hill, " they're lled-down the hollow there is a strong sense of muny. " For Brown's generatn of gay people, that sense of secury is still a prec-and agile-thg.
Thirty years om now, given the dramatic rise public support for gay rights, queer retire will be able to take for granted that they will be accepted and unrstood any retirement settg.