Time is a fickle thing.
And space is the final frontier.
So the space/time continuum must, then, be a fickle final frontier.
Related: Older gays reflect on thirsty photos of their younger selves
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The folks at Grindr‘s Into have assembled their team of adorable gays of a certain age to once again reminisce — this time on relationships past.
The whole exercise is a heart swell and may potentially produce some aching, though ultimately happy, tears.
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Vince
Love it.
Leeane314
I love these guys. Funny smart and cool!
talktalktalk
these guys are wonderful. I hope I’m even a tenth as cool and funny as they are at their age.
GayEGO
My husband and I have been together for 57 years and we have several photos of us together including black and white ones back in the early 1960s. Those were the days!
o.codone
Do you always have to talk about yourself?
evanxx
I was diagnosed with AIDS 30 years ago, & lost my first partner to the disease. Then I was with someone for 20 years, but he was taken by alcohol & drug use. Now I find that men my age are ostracized & marginalized by the gay community because of age & HIV stigma. But I can still look back at the glory days of being able to pick up the hottest guy in the place & take him home. Thanks to internet porn I can still be with the hottest guys in the world. So get out there while you’re young because your best years fly by quickly.
Vince
There was allot of unhealthiness in the gay community for too many years. Internalized shame manifests itself in drug and alcohol abuse. Lets face it. We came together in places that catered to alcohol and drugs. If you weren’t a strong person you could easily get caught up in it and then Hiv wasn’t far behind. I know some are missing the disappearance of the bar and bathhouse culture but it wasn’t healthy. It’s just the nostalgia of a by gone era.
Happy for the kids of today but kind of jealous. I wish I could do it over. Can you imagine growing up knowing you weren’t alone and not a bad person for who you loved?
evanxx
Vince – I don’t know where you got the idea that kids today are living a much more healthy lifestyle. They’re not! There is way more substance abuse now than ever before. I’ve never tried drugs, I never drank, and the only reason I got AIDS was because I never heard of “safe sex” until it was too late.
Kids today mix all kinds of drugs & booze, and engage in unprotected sex even though we now know all about safe sex now. There are even more STIs now than in my day, but they don’t seem to care. They think PrEP will save them.
I think you got your generations backwards.
winemaker
‘Age and time are fickle and the greatest thieves’. No truer woods have been spoken. How many of us have said ‘I’d like to do that’, or ‘i’d have liked to meet that nice guy at the gym but didn’t make the first move to ask him out? Instead life gets in the way , we never made the first move or ‘did that’ Missed opportunities of what might have become. Really this article applies to ALL of us. As we and move on with life, many of us have reflections and flashbacks of ‘what might have happened or become if’, Great and ‘timely’ article.