Many older gay men I have talked to do not take on board my political point of view. We can easily observe a large portion of youth who hate Labor and Liberals because they doing hold their values.

There has been various articles that do show that my generation is as I have described it, and from my own person experience my generation is exactly how I’ve described it.

If my stereotypical view of older men is a problem, then you can blame some of the older guys that I chat to.

I’m sorry that your comments weren’t published, I’m not in charge of that but I welcome comments. I also accept everyone for who they are, but if someone annoys me or if something I observe I think is wrong, I will probably write about it.

All I had basically said was that I find this writer to be making a habit of making sweeping generalizations that ostracize an entire group of people, like the column about gay Christians. Now it is GenY and GenX among other things.

I also put to Mt Matheson that possibly he would be well advised to adopt the inclusive attitude we ask of mainstream society in our call for acceptance and equality. Is anything less not a case of hypocrisy and “gay elitism” ???

I would really appreciate it if my comments are published, as I do not feel these remarks are offensive or abusive —- please correct me if I am wrong on this.

Thankyou.
Jase

There are also some broad generalisations made about both young and older gay men and the Gen X crowd which are unfair. I’ve met many people from your/my generation interested in both financial and humanist issues. As for older guys viewing younger guys as ‘entertainment’, maybe you’re just mixing with the wrong crowd.

The disclaimer included was quite confusing. Why would you buy a so-called ‘dumb’ guy a drink in the hope he’ll shut up? Why not just talk to someone else and leave him alone?

You can be disenchanted with both major political parties and still actively involved and interested in politics. I am a young, gay man who is thoroughly involved in politics. Unfortunately, a lot of people, rightly disillusioned with the ALP and LNP, disregard politics altogether because they don’t realise there are principled people representing the interests of the public in parliament as independents and in our minor parties.

And I’m not sure if I agree with the sentiments that an older generation of men don’t want to talk politics. In my experience, I think they see that as a sign of direction, worldly knowledge. In fact I’d more assume older gay men mostly dismiss younger gay men in the “DISCLAIMER” section of your piece – the ones refusing to bring up politics for being too complicated to hold a conversation with.

Obviously there is a generation gap in that GEN X HOMO have been through far worse than we have in consideration to their rights. I’m sure a gay young man growing up in the 1970’s would never have thought they could march down Oxford St protesting for marriage, let alone come out.

Finally, it’s not really any one else’s job to assume you have a brain, and if someone thinks they can assume your intelligent through what you wear or how you dance or what you drink well they can go find a glory hole.

Many people who vote Liberal support GLBTI rights as the polls show, but the polls also show that politicians are not representing the majority who vote for them who support equality. Young Liberals support equality, as does Young Labor, so generational change is underway in the parties, and some of us do not wish to wait for change and are flocking to the Greens who does not make your birth a punishment.

The issue for some older members of the GLBTI community is not that they are Aslan roaming Narnia, but they believed in real Liberal values and did not seek to have laws of religion forced onto citizens. Not to mention they grew up just hoping to shag and not go to jail, so this talk of Marriage can be a bit excessive to some.

But do not give up, keep your flame of hope going. Every generation gets told “you’re too young to understand”. If you are good enough to be paid less, die for us in foreign lands, and pay for University unlike Gillard or Abbott who got it free, then you have every right to form an opinion and not be put down due to your age.