{"id":18433,"date":"2015-05-04T10:06:21","date_gmt":"2015-05-04T14:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/an-open-letter-to-ageist-gay-men\/"},"modified":"2015-05-04T10:06:21","modified_gmt":"2015-05-04T14:06:21","slug":"an-open-letter-to-ageist-gay-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/an-open-letter-to-ageist-gay-men\/","title":{"rendered":"An Open Letter To Ageist Gay Men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>An Open Letter To Ageist Gay Men<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp\/docs\/2015\/05\/old-gay-guys.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp\/docs\/2015\/05\/old-gay-guys.jpg\" alt=\"old-gay-guys\" width=\"317\" height=\"293\"><\/a>The South Florida chapter of The Impulse Group, a non-profit that &ldquo;focuses on the sexual and overall health of the <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> community&rdquo; by throwing&nbsp;swanky shindigs, stands<a href=\"http:\/\/www.queerty.com\/gay-party-group-accused-of-age-discrimination-for-only-charging-the-over-40-crowd-20150423\" target=\"_blank\">&nbsp;accused of age discrimination<\/a>&nbsp;after demanding the over 40 crowd&nbsp;pay a $50 <del>age tax<\/del> &ldquo;donation&rdquo; for entry into a pool party in Miami.<\/p>\n<p>After enduring a&nbsp;backlash, the group&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.queerty.com\/gay-party-group-that-only-charged-over-40-crowd-says-its-deeply-saddened-by-allegations-of-ageism-denies-everything-20150501\" target=\"_blank\">issued a defense<\/a>&nbsp;saying ageism &ldquo;played absolutely no role&rdquo; in its decision to charge <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">guys<\/a>&nbsp;over 40 a fee to attend the event, and then insisted it&nbsp;was &ldquo;deeply saddened and stunned&rdquo; by the amount of hatred and vitriol organizers&nbsp;received, calling attacks &ldquo;unacceptable.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, these ageist pool partiers&nbsp;are hardly&nbsp;alone in hating on their fellow older <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gays<\/a>. You&nbsp;see it all the time:&nbsp;On&nbsp;Grinder profiles that attack &ldquo;old trolls&rdquo; and &ldquo;grandpas.&rdquo; In bars where older gents are completely ignored or greeted with hostility.&nbsp;At Pride parades where it seems anyone over 35 is relegated to the stands.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The whole thing got us thinking about ageism in our&nbsp;community, a problem that seems to be getting worse, not better. So, without any further ado, here is our open letter to all those&nbsp;ageist <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gays<\/a> out there&hellip;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dear Ageist Gays,<\/p>\n<p>George Bernard Shaw famously&nbsp;wrote &ldquo;Youth is wasted on the young.&rdquo; If you don&rsquo;t understand what this means then&nbsp;you&nbsp;likely&nbsp;fall into the category of either ignorant or &ldquo;young,&rdquo; which, for the sake of argument, is&nbsp;under the age of 25&hellip; OK, OK, 30, for those of you still clinging. But that&rsquo;s the cutoff, even if you are 50 and describe yourself as a &ldquo;boi&rdquo; on your Adam4Adam profile. (More power to you, dude!)<\/p>\n<p>A stubborn minority of <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">men<\/a>&nbsp;maintain&nbsp;ageist attitudes. Just scroll through the&nbsp;comments section of almost any recent <em>Queerty<\/em> article about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.queerty.com\/madonna-likens-ageism-to-homophobia-has-a-message-for-the-haters-20150226\" target=\"_blank\">Madonna<\/a> and you&rsquo;ll see what we mean. In the eyes of many <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">men<\/a>, including, evidently, the South Florida chapter of The Impulse Group, 40 is the new geriatric and 50 is the new dead.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, we&rsquo;re generalizing.&nbsp;There are plenty of <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">guys<\/a> out there who understand that age truly is just a number, and that we all just happen to be at different places along our journey.&nbsp;But for those of you who take&nbsp;offense any time a&nbsp;<a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">man<\/a> a few years your senior or sporting a few more wrinkles (wisdom marks, we like to <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=grq0&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">call<\/a> them) dares&nbsp;to&nbsp;look&nbsp;your way at a bar or say &ldquo;what&rsquo;s up?&rdquo; on SCRUFF, here are three&nbsp;reasons why&nbsp;you need to get over it:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp\/docs\/2015\/04\/respect.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp\/docs\/2015\/04\/respect-360x237.jpg\" alt=\"respect\" width=\"360\" height=\"237\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>1. It&rsquo;s shallow&nbsp;and&nbsp;disrespectful<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You don&rsquo;t like it when people discriminate against you for being <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a>, right? Because, as Lady Gaga so eloquently put it, you were #bornthisway. Discriminating against&nbsp;someone based on&nbsp;characteristics that are completely arbitrary, such as&nbsp;age, is, in a word, bigotry. Not to mention, it&rsquo;s rude.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp\/docs\/2015\/04\/waste-of-time-283x300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp\/docs\/2015\/04\/waste-of-time-283x300.jpg\" alt=\"waste-of-time-283x300\" width=\"283\" height=\"300\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>2. It&rsquo;s a waste of time<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gay people have enough crap to deal with already. Truly, there is no need&nbsp;to waste&nbsp;time tearing down others&nbsp;for sport. We&rsquo;re in the middle of a heated battle for marriage equality, <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">men<\/a> still earn less then heterosexual <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">men<\/a> in the workplace, and there are still states where it&rsquo;s legal to fire someone or deny them housing for being <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you&rsquo;re genuinely bothered by&nbsp;a 40 or 50 or 60-year-old <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">man<\/a> merely <em>existing<\/em> in the same world as you, you seriously need to check your priorities. Nearly an entire generation of <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">men<\/a> was wiped out during the &rsquo;80s and &rsquo;90s. Try to appreciate those who are still&nbsp;around. They put up&nbsp;with a lot of shit and created a lot of change so you don&rsquo;t have to. You should be flirting with them out of gratitude alone.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp\/docs\/2015\/04\/botox_men_wrinkle.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp\/docs\/2015\/04\/botox_men_wrinkle-360x239.jpg\" alt=\"botox_men_wrinkle\" width=\"360\" height=\"239\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>3. It&rsquo;s futile<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Brace yourself because this one&rsquo;s gonna&nbsp;hurt&hellip; One day that &ldquo;old <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">man<\/a>&rdquo; you loathe and fear is gonna&nbsp;be you. If you are even fortunate enough to grow old, that is.<\/p>\n<p>That&rsquo;s right, my friend.&nbsp;In the not so distant future,&nbsp;you&rsquo;re going to find yourself on the receiving end of a younger person&rsquo;s snarky sideways glances and dramatic eye rolls. Agism is unique in that you are hating yourself,&nbsp;not just others. Or rather,&nbsp;your <em>future self<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>And it doesn&rsquo;t matter how&nbsp;often&nbsp;you work out, how big your tacky collection of Abercrombie shirts is, or how much Botox you inject into your face, the day will come when you can&nbsp;no longer rely on your youth to get by or excuse your behavior. You will actually have to be good, not simply young.<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s amazing how time flies. Especially as you get older.<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<\/p>\n<p>Your friends at&nbsp;<em>Queerty<\/em><\/p>\n<div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/queerty2?a=cJNzQ2s1j3w:1R80FrsnfE8:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/queerty2?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/queerty2?a=cJNzQ2s1j3w:1R80FrsnfE8:dnMXMwOfBR0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/queerty2?d=dnMXMwOfBR0\" border=\"0\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>Graham Gremore<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/queerty2\/~3\/cJNzQ2s1j3w\/an-open-letter-to-ageist-gay-men-20150504\" class=\"autohyperlink\">feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/queerty2\/~3\/cJNzQ2s1j3w\/an-open-letter-to-ageist-gay-men-20150504<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Open Letter To Ageist Gay Men The South Florida chapter of The Impulse Group, a non-profit that &ldquo;focuses on the sexual and overall health of the <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> community&rdquo; by throwing&nbsp;swanky shindigs, stands&nbsp;accused of age discrimination&nbsp;after demanding the over 40 crowd&nbsp;pay a $50 age tax &ldquo;donation&rdquo; for entry into a pool party in Miami. 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