Those who did survive are now entering their 50s, 60s and 70s, giving us our first generation of older, media-savvy queer men. The HIV epidemic’s worst years in the ’80s and ’90s wiped out an entire generation of queer men who’d now be in their 40s and 50s had they survived. “This is the first time that we’ve had an older generation,” Sloan says, and he’s right. Here’s a trailer for the web series West 40s: Some gay senior citizens live with other older gay friends in a Golden Girls-style living arrangement - dating, having sex and living authentic, fulfilling lives. By 2034, that number is expected to double. Right now there are at least 3 million LGBTQ seniors living in the Unite States.
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in the series) and with Silver Foxes creator Stan Zimmerman, a longtime TV and film writer and producer who worked on Golden Girls, Gilmore Girls, The Brady Bunch Movie and A Very Brady Film.
To better understand why older gay men are appearing more and more on television, we spoke with West 40s’ creators, Brian Sloan and Mark Sam Rosenthal (who plays lusty character T.J. Its first episode went online this past July. For posterity’s sake, let’s have a look: There’s the silver-haired gay couple played by Martin Sheen and Sam Waterston in Netflix’s comedy series Grace and Frankie, Will and Jack in the revival of Will & Grace, openly gay 63-year-old actor Leslie Jordan in the upcoming FOX retirement home comedy The Cool Kids, a gay version of The Golden Girls called Silver Foxes currently in development and the comedic web series West 40s, about a group of gay friends navigating their 40s in Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan.