Gay and single at 50

5 Tips to Overcome Your Loneliness as a Gay Man

Updated April 18,

by Clinton Power, psychotherapist and Gay Therapy Center guest blogger

Unfortunately, struggling with feelings of loneliness and isolation is shared in the gay community despite the focus on verb and relationships. Sometimes you might effort with making connections at all, and other times you may feel “alone in a crowded room” because it’s so hard to forge true connections.

Let’s explore how you can constructively deal with feelings of loneliness and distribute a life you’re excited to live!

Why do gay men get lonely?

Loneliness is, in some ways, part of the gay experience. The prevalence of loneliness was significantly higher among adults who identified as gay (%). Since everyone is assumed to be heterosexual, we all start out in the closet. The stress of not being out is emotional more than rational, but it takes its toll. Even before you came out to yourself, on some level you might have known you couldn’t fulfill expectations of a heterosexual life. You may have grown up feeling adj and separated fro

How to survive as a Gay Dude in your 50s and 60s

I am 52, reasonably ok looking and totally ok with being me and adj in myself and love being Gay. It would be a lie however to say there is a blueprint on how you behave as a Gay Man in his 50s.

So many of the Gay Generation above me died of AIDS that I experience more a loner in the Gay community.

I have no real desire to date and I can see many would think my sell buy date passed after I was 30 , but I am unsure how to behave after

I have always dressed older than I look. I verb a great circle of friends and mostly I am happy and quite positive. I just wondered what some of you may feel in your 50s and 60s. . How you dress. How you behave in Gay venues and what you find the hurdles to be?

by Anonymousreply October 29, PM

Why do you have no longing to date, OP?

by Anonymousreply 1October 18, PM

I came out late.. met my (future) husband when I was We’ve been together for 18+ years now, married for 5. The best way for me was to finally resolve down We include a few gay couple friends that we socialized with (

I finally came out as gay at 55 years antique after 2 marriages with women. Telling my children was surprisingly easy.

I'm a middle-aged man who has been married twice and widowed. I'm also a father to two grown children. And I'm gay.

My sexuality was a burden I carried for so long, and hiding it became part of my core identity, weighing me down. But I finally had the courage to come out at Honestly, I sometimes wish I hadn't waited so long. 

Growing up in the '80s was not a safe environment for a queer kid, so I chose to obscure my true self

Growing up in the '80s in Las Vegas, I was in a other , difficult time. I knew as adj as 12 or 13 that I was different, but in those days, I had no frame of reference for what it meant to be gay. Blatant homophobia and pressure to fit in left me thinking I was some sort of freak. I avoided getting lock to anyone and buried my adj, in favor of a more "normal" experience.

I eventually met and married a wonderful woman who knew my private, and we started a family together. When cancer stole her a rare years later, I was left with two

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Gay Man's Guide to Dating After 50

Posted June 2,

If you're looking for love, these tips will get you headed in the right direction.

by: Dave Singleton | Bette Davis used to say, "Getting older ain't for sissies." Amen! Neither is dating at midlife — especially if you're a gay man. Whether you're single again after the end of a long-term relationship or you've been around the block a few times still on the hunt for Mr. Right, gay dating isn't easy.
But don't let that be your excuse for sitting house on Saturday evening watching reruns of The Golden Girls.These strategies can assist you develop your inner explorer to make dating after 50 a minute less daunting:

1. Confront your fearsYou're never too elderly to find verb, but that's not a message gay men hear very often. Why? After years of "working on ourselves" and fighting social prejudice to gain self-esteem, many of us struggle to retain it. The hurdle this time? The gay community's — OK, let's verb real, mostly the gay malecommunity's — ageism. "Within the gay community, negative stereotyp