{"id":8273,"date":"2025-11-18T11:36:39","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T16:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.silvercentury.org\/?p=8273"},"modified":"2025-11-18T11:37:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T16:37:21","slug":"the-old-gays-guide-to-the-good-life-lessons-learned-about-love-and-death-sex-and-sin-and-saving-the-best-for-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2025\/11\/the-old-gays-guide-to-the-good-life-lessons-learned-about-love-and-death-sex-and-sin-and-saving-the-best-for-last\/","title":{"rendered":"The Old Gays\u2019 Guide to the Good Life: Lessons Learned About Love and Death, Sex and Sin, and Saving the Best for Last"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By Mick Peterson, Jessay Martin, Bill Lyons and Robert Reeves \u2014 <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Harper Wave<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 2023<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You may recognize them from their dancing videos on TikTok, but you don\u2019t know them like this. Mick, Jessay, Bill and Robert\u2014aka the \u201cOld Gays\u201d\u2014have unique stories and upbringings, but together they went viral in Robert\u2019s Cathedral City, CA, living room. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Old Gays\u2019 Guide to the Good Life<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a combination of biographical history and \u201chow-to\u201d life advice based on decades of experience, growing older as gay men in America. The book captures why the world has fallen in love with these men through heartfelt, provocative and laugh-out-loud funny narratives. They pull back the curtain to reveal thoughts about first loves and heartbreaks, managing health conditions, gay marriage and living through the AIDS epidemic. With personality on every page\u2014and even more so in the audiobook, narrated by the authors themselves\u2014readers are reminded that older adulthood can bring unexpected adventure and has the potential to be the best years yet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You may recognize them from their videos on TikTok, but you don\u2019t know them like this. Mick, Jessay, Bill and Robert\u2014aka the \u201cOld Gays\u201d\u2014have unique stories<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2025\/11\/the-old-gays-guide-to-the-good-life-lessons-learned-about-love-and-death-sex-and-sin-and-saving-the-best-for-last\/\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Old Gays\u2019 Guide to the Good Life: Lessons Learned About Love and Death, Sex and Sin, and Saving the Best for Last<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":8274,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-nonfiction","category-views-from-the-oldest-among-us"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":"","source_text":"","source_url":""},"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8273"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8276,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8273\/revisions\/8276"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}