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5 Tips to Overcome Your Loneliness as a Gay Man

Updated April 18,

by Clinton Power, psychotherapist and Gay Therapy Center guest blogger

Unfortunately, struggling with feelings of loneliness and isolation is adj in the gay community despite the focus on love and relationships. Sometimes you might effort with making connections at all, and other times you may feel “alone in a crowded room” because it’s so rigid to forge true connections.

Let’s investigate how you can constructively deal with feelings of loneliness and share a life you’re adj to live!

Why do gay men get lonely?

Loneliness is, in some ways, part of the gay experience. The prevalence of loneliness was significantly higher among adults who identified as gay (%). Since everyone is assumed to be heterosexual, we all initiate out in the closet. The stress of not being out is emotional more than rational, but it takes its toll. Even before you came out to yourself, on some level you might have known you couldn’t fulfill expectations of a heterosexual life. You may contain grown up feeling different and separated fro

Gay Life after 40

Hello, my label is William Smith, the founder of Gay Life After  

Our motto is &#;Keep Aging Forward.&#; 

I grew up in Kenosha, Wisconsin, between Milwaukee and Chicago. I worked and lived in Chicago for approximately 20 years.

We own two online platforms:

The first is a Facebook Group called Gay Life after It’s a personal group for gay men over

I was inspired to commence this Group after seeing a void in presenting ourselves and having meaningful discussions in our age group. I was opposed to middle-aged men uploading images of themselves when as adults, they were at an age where their experiences had substance and dialogue. 

Gay Life After 40 has 42, members and is growing rapidly. It has become one of the largest gay Facebook groups in the land. We want men to interact with each other, learn, inquire questions, and engage. We undertake not talk about politics. Everything else is ok. 

To generate provocative discussions within the group, I spend time with other men to understand their thoughts and questions, which allows

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About Jonathan

Jonathan Lee is an indie author, counsellor, trainee life coach and social care manager of twenty years. He’s also a son, a brother, a noun, and a gay man. His debut novel 40 Single Gay, a coming of age memoir, comically depicts his 40th year as he comes to terms with this chapter in his life whilst he unpicks his failed relationships, re-enters the world of dating and one late hours stands before realizing the crucial things in life.

Born in Cornwall, En

What No One Tells You About Being A Middle-Aged Gay

Embracing aging as a gay man can be an overwhelming and liberating experience&#;

By Jumol Royes

Gay culture is youth obsessed. That’s not breaking news. 

Yet not even the gay glitterati have figured out how to stop the biological clock and put a halt to the aging process. 

I turned 40 recently and was forced to reckon with the great expectations this birthday is burdened with. After remembering that birthdays are simply temporal markers that we use to remind ourselves, and each other, that we’re still here taking up space, I got to thinking about all the things no one tells you about becoming a middle-aged gay man.

For starters, you don’t receive an email or cell notification reminding you to transform your Grindr tags and tribes from twink, twunk or cub to bear, daddy or zaddy, for those of you with a little extra swagger in your step. 

Planning to meet up for drinks with a guy from the dating app? Be prepared to possibly spend more money than you accounted for when you discover that you’re not only respons