You can find some old ones that are just as bad as some of the younger ones,” he quipped.
“Old gays are really no different than younger gays.
Meanwhile Martin believes they’re educating people on “being human.” It turned out to be rather enjoyable.”įrom there, people of all ages, especially younger social media users, fell in love with them and started following their conversations, which include everything from their hilarious reactions to Cardi B's “WAP” music video to sharing their coming out journeys to a look back on the loves of their lives. “The first video we didn't really get paid anything for, we just went basically for the fun of it,” Robert Reeves, 78, told TODAY. I feel like a dinosaur, but the way that people are reacting to me and to the others, I can't believe it.”īased in Cathedral City, California, right outside the LGBTQ enclave of Palm Springs, the foursome of gay men, who range in age from the mid-60s to late 70s, were already friends when the dating app Grindr began using them as subjects in videos back in 2018. “I mean, at 77 years old, I never had any idea that this would happen to me. “I'm still having a hard time wrapping my head around that, truly,” Bill Lyons, 77, added.
