Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Quentin Crisp
  • Prologue: Gay and gray revisited / Raymond M. Berger and James J. Kelly
  • Part I: The interview study. The interview respondents. General observations and demographic data ; Coming out ; Involvement with family and community ; Social and sex life ; Intergenerational attitudes ; Discrimination ; Life review ; Adaptation ; Follow up ; Matthew ; William ; Mike ; Arthur ; David ; Scott
  • Part II: The questionnaire study. Method. The questionnaire ; The sample
  • What are older homosexual men like? Age ; Sexual orientation ; Living situation ; Marriage and love ; Socioeconomic status ; Psychological and social adaptation
  • What leads to psychological and social adjustment? The societal reaction perspective ; Relationship of respondent characteristics to psychological adjustment ; The well-adjusted older homosexual
  • The older homosexual man in perspective. Diversity ; Prejudice ; Adjustment of the older homosexual ; Psychosocial problems ; Services and policy for the older homosexual
  • Part III: Additional perspectives on gay aging. Age-status labeling in homosexual men / Fred A. Minnigerode
  • Natives and settlers : an ethnographic note on early interaction of older homosexual men with younger gay liberationists / John Grube. Socialization into the traditional gay community ; Liberation : settlers transforming the landscape ; Three examples of accommodation
  • Sexual attitudes and behavior in midlife and aging homosexual males / Mark Pope, Richard Schulz
  • Older lesbian and gay people: a theory of successful aging / Richard A. Friend.