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John lockhart is a former lobbyist at the federal and state levels he is a gay games gold medal age division winner in the marathon half marathon and 10k the gay mans guide to growing older is his first book he lives in san diego. Little is known about what it is like to age as a gay man this study explores the psychosocial well being of older gay men including associations between present life experiences and self esteem and subjective well being a nationwide community based online survey was conducted involving 840 australian gay men. Participants included 439 australian gay identified men aged 50 years and older who completed an online survey of their health and wellbeing these men gave unrestricted open ended responses to a question on how life had changed for them as a gay man since being aged in their twenties. Little is known about what it is like to age as a gay man this study explores the psychosocial wellbeing of older gay men including associations between present life experiences and self esteem . Today gay men who were at the height of the gay liberation movement in the s and s face new challenges around growing old as a gay man in the past fears of discrimination or of being treated as having a disorder clarke et al resulted in many gay men exercising con