Fruiting bodies and friendship in queer middle age

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As 40-something gays, we aren’t old, per se, but we’re older than we used to be. Jesse was the first one to say we were middle-aged, and I immediately recognized that he was right. To many gay 20-somethings, 40 is the beginning of death; one of my (worst) ex-boyfriends used to call middle-aged gay men at sex parties “old and gross,” and he’s certainly not the only one to think this way. …read more

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