Battered by bigotry, self-hatred and the acid tongues of countless drag queens, we've developed a sense of cynicism par excellence. Gay death, then, ain't so much of a stretch. If you don't, it's a special kind of hell. And maybe it is - if you've got money, a partner and a plan. Of course, you can't complain about these feelings to any older and supposedly wiser folks, because they've lost all perspective and reckon your 20s is a decadent decade of carefree bliss.
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So consider this a very public wiping of the slate. I started fudging my age a while ago - shaving off a year or two, no more - and I've lost track of who I have and haven't lied to. It has taken quite a dose of vinegar for me to admit all this. In the musical Avenue Q, the seminal text about being in your 20s, there's even a song about it: I wish I could go back to college, in college you know who you are - you sit in the quad and think "oh my god, I am totally gonna go faaaaar!" But you have to be pretty famous to pull that off.Īnd with each passing year it becomes harder to go back to university in a hopeless attempt to recapture those heady days of yore. Of the decade's remainder, only the "27 Club" has any romantic value the age Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Kurt Cobain and Amy Winehouse shuffled off this mortal coil. And if "nobody loves you when you're 23", one can't imagine how they feel two years later.
MAYBE I AM GAY MEME WINDOWS
I'll never be a tennis pro, model or pop star - those windows of opportunity have shut. My natural impatience means I feel it more acutely the clock ticking constantly down and life's options ever thinning.
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No matter your stripes, being in your 20s is an agonising procession of self-doubt, existential crises and regret. Indeed, gay death cuts to the fear of ageing that festers somewhere in all of us.