Grandpas gay

The book focuses on old age, and the gay men in its pages reflect frequently on the past. But I want to. There’s also the letter carrier Sam and his younger husband, Daryl, in “Big Boy,” who encounter a wealthy couple, Monroe and Richard, as they walk through the South End. Sam and Daryl have an open relationship within certain boundaries, which these new friends end up challenging.

First names for everyone! He often retires, disappears or is discarded.

The GAY ELDER CIRCLE is designed to assist gay men and others to make the transition from adult to elder, in the process consciously assuming a new role in the community—a life of continuing usefulness to to others within the context of group support, encouragement, and genuine brotherhood. the CIRCLE understands the West African saying:

“If elders are lost, adults will be lost; and if adults are lost, youth will be lost.”

It has been recognized throughout history and across cultures that life usually consists of four stages—youth, adult, elder and ancestor.

We come from a wide range of backgrounds and are united in our primary purpose of being useful to younger gay men and of service to the gay and larger community.

A healthy and thriving community honors ancestors, needs elders, depends on adults and invites youth. Zigzag is his second short-story collection (after The Language We Use Up Here), and he has also written a novel (Beijing) and some notable nonfiction: Something Inside: Conversations with Gay Fiction Writers;Travels in a Gay Nation: Portraits of LGBTQ Americans; and a remarkable memoir, As Far as I Can Tell: Finding My Father in World War II, which I reviewed in the Provincetown Independent in 2021.

I want to go to sleep, have somebody close to me, not for any other reason, but to be sure that someone cares.

Blank’s grandson Brandon Gross is currently finishing a film that tells the story of his grandparents' marriage. 

“As Holocaust survivors who tragically lost family members, their lives have been filled with darkness.

An older (senior citizen, old person, golden oldy and so forth) is often a person who celebrates a birthday each year and waits for death with little sense of a larger role for himself in the community. I refuse to be grandad. The bigger question may be whether a village can be created that can truly accept and receive them.

It reinforces Gambone’s themes and the sense of community among disparate characters, but it also underlines his ambivalence about the right and wrong choices in life. I really don't need any either physical or mental connections. I suppose we should settle this.

Just call me tutu. These fictional boomers are both proving and disproving the cliché that “old age isn’t for sissies.”

Gambone is an extraordinarily good writer, though his work has usually been relegated to the queer lit sections of bookstores and websites because of his subjects.

He is strikingly efficient with detail and description, offering just enough about clothes, décor, and appearance to enhance one’s understanding of character and setting but not so much as to create an indulgent soup of symbolism. Can you imagine, 90 years, to be in the closet?

In a heartwarming moment—Blank is asked whether he was interested in finding a boyfriend or companion.

Blank uses one hand to cover his face as though telling a secret and emphatically says: “Yes!”

When given the options of Marlon Brando, Ronald Reagan or Zac Efron to describe his ideal ‘type’, Blank cheekily remarks, “I don’t care!”

 "I don't look at the face, I look at the heart.

Though it was usually for grandmothers, it could be used for grandfathers. (almost).

Well, this had Guy deciding I was old-fashioned and I should have the old-world, old fashioned moniker of “papa". In the process of growing from one stage to the next, both the community and individuals are transformed.