Remember when you were in your 20s and you couldn’t fathom ever being 30, let alone in your 30s?
Then one day you woke up, achy and hungover from the one glass of wine you consumed at dinner the night before, and suddenly realized you were closer to 40 than you were to 20 and, instead of having a panic attack about it, you were like “That’s OK. Who wants to be 20 anyway?”
Turns out, 30 isn’t death, after all.
Now, scroll down for 30 highly relatable tweets about being gay in your 30s…
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1.
In your gay 20s, “on the apps” means Grindr/Scruff/etc. In your gay 30s, “on the apps” means GrubHub/UberEats/Postmates. And FYI you get equally pissed off when someone isn’t on them.
— Todd Masterson (@Toddmasterson) April 8, 2019
2.
When everyone on gay twitter is talking about pop stars and you don’t know who any of them are Bc you’re in your 30s but you still wanna say something: pic.twitter.com/boSkjyCro1
— Chelsea Steiner (@ChelseaProcrast) May 12, 2018
3.
Gay life in your 30s is trying on the new jockstrap you bought but also making yourself a hot chocolate
— X626 (@im_so_childish) February 10, 2019
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Gays in their late 30s (feat. @basichec) pic.twitter.com/e6I6LNAXko
— Paxton Pill (@fupaxtonpill) April 2, 2019
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#PrideWeekend in your 20s: OMG where are the parties? Let’s go to all of them and dance our a$$es off! ? #Pride in your 30s: honey, can we just order some Chinese food and watch Queer Eye? ?
— ?LeeSean ?? ? (@leesean) June 22, 2018
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Young gay 20 something's on Twitter: (everything is life or death)!!!!!!
My ass being mid 30s: Um figure it out if you want ?????. This is all messy lol pic.twitter.com/7GzRQx6yfl— Fajita del Toro (@MrHippoKing) February 8, 2019
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I’m a single gay men in my 30s with no friends and a cat that hates me. I think I’m succeeding at life?
— christopher james (@rapidbash) April 5, 2019
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Apparently being gay in my late 30s is exactly like being Julianne Moore in her late 50s. #GloriaBell pic.twitter.com/iTLzCzj2mz
— Wonder/Woe Man (@WonderWoeMan) April 11, 2019
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Gay culture is congratulating yourself on the amount of over 30s you swipe right on Chappy, even though you are yourself 35.
— David Morgan (@thisisdavid) February 5, 2019
10.
The Valentine’s Day of a 30-year-old single gay man. pic.twitter.com/Kqo7G2lh1f
— Justin (@jus10bryant) February 14, 2019
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Gays according to age:
In your 20s you’re still a boy.
Your 30s you’re a big bro.
Your 40s you become a daddy.
50s you become a boss daddy.
60+ you become a grand daddy.I don’t make the rules, I just follow them.
— Lovely Tegan (@TeganZayne) January 9, 2018
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When a 30 year old gay man calls himself a twink pic.twitter.com/zFDLaUY0Wb
— The Gay Burn Book (@SouthernHomo) September 5, 2014
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Sat, alone, in my house drinking a glass of wine, eating popcorn and watching The Golden Girls. When did I turn into a 30 something gay New York man who is very much a Charlotte yet is still trying to prove he’s a Samantha.
— Leah ?? (@Leahnewman_) April 2, 2018
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Gays talking to their straight friends in their 30s pic.twitter.com/452Zy1YVoe
— Calum Sherwood (@CalumSSherwood) March 22, 2019
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scrolling through cute vloggers' feeds trying to figure out whether they're gay or not isn't how I expected to spend my evenings in my 30s but whatever
— morally dubious lesbian (@snorfbladt) January 15, 2019
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There is no purer love than that of a 30-something gay for a female popstar who sang the soundtrack to their formative years. Undying, eternal and beyond reason. pic.twitter.com/PPsNlWfMGD
— James (@jrawson) February 23, 2019
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For as much as the gay male community fetishizes youth, I gotta say: dating and sex is SO much better in your thirties.
— JP Larocque (@jplarocque) February 9, 2014
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Gays: maybe 30 isn’t death
29 year old gays: pic.twitter.com/ISMOxI03aZ
— Data Usage Daddy (@davidthomvs) January 3, 2019
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Spent my Sunday morning crocheting and listening to @HelloRossPod because I’m a gay adult man in his 30s. Can @helloross just drink rosè and gossip with me?
— Jeremy Behrens (@Jeremy_Behrens) March 10, 2019
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I'm a 30 year old gay man and I've never been engaged pic.twitter.com/fYFTc09xP1
— gaydleyihlekisa (@SaintSdumo) February 13, 2019
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The cruelest irony of my gay life is meeting great bf material guys when I first came out as a 20 something and taking it for granted. Only to be a 30 something and now realizing how good my options were and how terrible they are now ?????
— TJ (@hes_a_Fop) February 14, 2019
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Me anytime I meet another gay man in his 30s or 40s telling me how he's resisted the pressure of the expectation of getting married.. pic.twitter.com/U0gDewMuHm
— Dude. (@InvictaPars) March 13, 2019
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All of you beautiful young gay men to pick from and Tom Daley goes for someone in his late-thirties. There's a life lesson for you, boys.
— Justin Myers (@theguyliner) December 3, 2013
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Ya’ll 30 something gays love calling yourselves “young”. ?you aren’t old but come on. pic.twitter.com/rkiq4mFrSW
— Last Name Hunter (@angelotommie) April 5, 2019
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the 20s to mid-30s gay age brackets are Early 20s, Late 20s, and "I can't believe you're in your 30s!"
— Amy Marvin (@amyrmarv) December 1, 2018
26.
? Chinese food
? Retin A
? moisturizer
? put on eyeglasses
? poured myself a drink
? made myself an ice pack
? turned on RPDR on DVR
? husband (@catdaddymd) next to me
? cats nearbyThe Friday night gay agenda in my 30s. pic.twitter.com/C2rfGY6vh4
— manbearcat (@manbearkitten) December 15, 2018
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Im watching Book Club with Candice Bergen and Diane Keaton and it is about middle aged women lamenting over their sexual youth. So.. basically my circle of 30 something gay friends.
— darren (@dhgee_) December 1, 2018
28.
me telling a young gay what dating in your 30s is like pic.twitter.com/YE5NzFd8LZ
— SeRiOuS gamer (@buttwife) May 24, 2018
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I realize now why I seemed tedious and annoying to 30 something gays when I was a youngin because all the problems y’all talk about we still haven’t figured out and that fact alone is deeply depressing.
— Petty Mayonnaise (@ConstantFail) February 10, 2019
30.
As a creative, gay man now in his early thirties, I’m starting to make peace with never having a six pack for Instagram, a fashionable wardrobe or indeed, ever appearing particularly cool. But I’ve got a head full of memories, a body frayed from living & a heart made for love.
— Andrew Keates (@andrewkeates) December 2, 2018
BONUS:
Being gay and in your 30s is wild.
— andy (@allegedlygay) January 28, 2019
Vince
30s is nothing but an extension of the twenties for most since most gay men are 10 years behind in the maturity factor. I don’t see any changes at all. Now the 40s is when the maturity for most starts to set in.
Crystix
No Gurl, thats just your mid-life crisis
Chrisk
@Crystix. Speaking of maturity grow up.
Creamsicle
I once brought home an early 20s twink who kept talking about how selective he is with guys because he didn’t want to “hook up with some guys who, like 30.” I was 31 at the time. I ended up sending him back to his place because he also had a “no kissing” rule, and I just don’t see the point of sex without kissing.
The young little things have no idea what 30 looks or feels like. They’re just scared of a number.