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Theology and Sexuality, Vol. 8, No. 15, 94-113 (2001)
DOI: 10.1177/135583580100801507

Becoming the Men We're Ceasing to Be: A Gay Agenda for Aging in a Youth Culture

Ron Long

In this wide-ranging article Long explores the spiritual problem of aging with particular reference to the gay male community. Long analyses the construction of beauty and its association with goodness and youth in contemporary (and indeed ancient Christian) culture. He rejects the transgressive gender theories that characterize queer theory, regarding modern homosexuality as a reinforcing and widening of masculinity. He argues that the process of ageing gives gay men the chance to become the men that their youthful looks declared them to be.


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