Oh, Abel…

 

@abelaranamedia

It's been a hot minute since I heard from Abel Arana. I used to follow him here on blogger. He used to write @lacolumnadeabelarana, a riotous, irreverent, smart, sexy blog that is sadly, not updated anymore. 

One of the things Abel usually talks is being a gay man of a certain age in a world where being a gay man of a certain age is almost certainly a ticket to being invisible.

What makes him fun is that he absolutely refuses to let that define him. He acknowledges it and moves on. Oh, does he post the occasional thirst trap? Of course! Does he look back at his life in those #throwbackthursdays where he looks all of twenty-five? Yes, he does. Is he snarky, yet insightful in the not-so-rare post? Indeed. And that's refreshing.

"I just renewed my contract with singledom for a year with an option to expand to five"

"There's always people who are in my prayers: in the part that says 'and deliver us from evil'"

And this is the book that I am going to ask my friend @merlinpurpura to get for me in Spain. It's called A Fag at Fifty: The Martyr Life. 

"Have you hit forty and feel as if you're slowly but surely becoming invisible? What I'm going through is the same you are going through. Or what you will be going through eventually. It's going to get uncomfortable at times and sometimes it's going to get serious. And sometimes we're going to laugh a lot. So just let me tell you our story..."

Sounds intriguing, no? I wish more gay men would write about life after forty. And after fifty. And after sixty. And after seventy. I think that's what makes blogging interesting, to be honest: we read about men's lives in every stage: when we're coming out, when we're whoring around, when we're getting married, when we are single, when we have fun, when we are down. 

I wish we would more of that. So, do you have any suggestions of people you follow that I'd enjoy following? It does not matter if it's just Dick Blogs (I like those too!) but I'm more interested in bloggers who talk. Go ahead, babes. Hit me up...

XOXO