The Invisible Generation

[Deja Q]

http://lifestyle.gay.com/2009/05/the-invisible-generation.html

My friend Louis dragged me to a party of one of his friends, who just turned 21. At the party, Louis had a group of young guys hanging on his every word. He turned and pointed out a man in his 40s and said, "Who invited their dad?" All the boys giggled with delight at his remark as I stood stone-faced and not amused.

The generation that blew open the closet door and put out the welcome mat for all of us happens to be the same generation we throw back in the closet to hide them from the world. They are invisible to us.

Here are five reasons they should no longer be ignored:

Article has more.

[DURHAM D]

1. A comment -

A quote from the story at your link -

"There is a generation of gay men who were part of the groundbreaking movement to show that being gay was not a choice, not abnormal and not an "alternative lifestyle."

Just a reminder - don't forget us lesbians. We are out there as well risking our livelihoods and lives.

[pinto]

4. Women were right there with us in that first time with AIDS in our communities.

As we gays struggled with what it all was, or meant, or would mean, lesbians supported us in stepping up. Day to day. Life by life. I don't post here much, but this is a thank you for those women that could and did. It meant a hell of a lot for us.

[ThomCat]

5. I remember very clearly from many years of volunteer work

that it was always groups of lesbians that cross the lines and volunteered to help both gay men and lesbians. Gay men only seemed to volunteer to help gay men. It was as if lesbians didn't exist to them.

The lesbians community was an inexhaustible resource, and I couldn't appreciate them enough for everything they did and all the stuff they taught me through volunteering. :loveya:

[mitchtv]

2. thanks for the shout out

from an invisible 64 year old who has been thrown in jail fighting for Gay rights

[msongs]

3. gay men over 40 = freaks of nature, over 50 = miracle of creation, over 60 = who? nt

[MotorCityMan]

11. Or as a comedian on Logo said

"I recently turned 40, which in gay years is dead..."

The snarky little 20 year olds in the article will find out soon enough that they are not immune to aging.

I've seen comments like that before about older gay men. A friend sent me a link of a Colton Ford video (he is drop dead gorgeous), and someone had posted a comment referring to him as "Grandpa on steroids".

Hell, I've been attracted to older men since I came out at 18. Still am, actually, and I'll be 45 this year. I see younger guys that I think are hot, but I'll take a mature man over a younger man any day.

[Mike 03]

6. Last night I watched "Milk". How old would Harvey Milk be today?

I think the movie said he was in his late forties when assassinated, so that would make him how old now?

This movement did not only help GLBT but everyone whose life was changed for the better by someone who happened to be GLBT.

[RetiredTrotskyite]

7. That would make him...

somehwere in his late 70s. And I suppose all these worshippers of youth would want him hidden away, too.

I worked for hospice in the 80s and 90s and I only wish I could have done so for free. Those were some of the best years of my life. I still think often about those I cared for and think that the world is poorer off without them in it.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

8. what a stupid stupid article. i'd like to know in which gathering of straight 20 year olds

does one not look askance at a 40 year old? this has nothing to do with being a forgotten generation as much as it has to do with a different generation

[GodlessBiker]

9. This is funny. At the parties I go to, if we see a 20 year-old, we say, "Who brought their kid?"

And we laugh and laugh.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

10. LOL