Sex at 60
Psychotherapist Robert Levithan brings his Advocate column, The New 60, to the Good Men Project Magazine. In this first installment, he writes about the benefits of dating younger men and generally...
View ArticleMen Come With Warning Labels
In The New 60, Robert Levithan navigates love and relationships. Here, he wonders whether his dad’s habit of fibbing affects his attraction to “trouble.”“Men come with warning labels,” my friend Sally...
View ArticleOuting Mr. Hyde
If you can’t confront your shadow, it’ll bite you in the ass.There are photographs of me—many of them by the artist Peter Hujar, another by Robert Mapplethorpe—that could be considered compromising....
View ArticleOn Dating Someone Young Enough to Be Your Grandson
‘I have a problem that many would not, on the surface, see as a problem: I’m getting hit on by men in their early twenties—a lot.’I’m riding my Segway home from a movie at 11 pm on a Monday night. I...
View ArticleI Was Supposed to Die
Robert Levithan thought he was headed for his deathbed, but 15 years later he’s still cherishing life.“Will I lose my dignity? Will someone care? Will I wake tomorrow from this nightmare?”The moment...
View ArticleWhen Monogamy Is a Cop Out
Robert Levithan explains why monogamy might not be for everyone. Monogamy remains the societal ideal for relationships. Those who choose other forms are pathologized as immature, irresponsible—even...
View ArticleListen to Steve Jobs: Live Your Life
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” —Steve JobsOur primary mission on planet earth is to care of our own soul. This will look different for each of us, of course. And...
View ArticleA Gay, Hippie-Generation Vietnam Protestor Has Some Advice for You
Occupy Wall Street and the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell may mark the beginning of the end of an era of complacency, fundamentalism, and a privileged few.The moment I realized I was gay, I also...
View ArticleThe 30th Anniversary of AIDS
With the passing of another International AIDS Day, Robert Levithan reflects on his experience.It’s always interesting to realize that certain people wish me dead. It’s not personal. They don’t know...
View ArticleThe Risk Junkie
I’m a petty, ungrateful, sniveling whiner. Reduced to self-pity by the flu. The co-diagnosis is entitlement. My perception has become so skewed that I perceive my high-octane life as a right — rather...
View ArticleLiving the Impossible Dream
Most people would say he shouldn’t still be alive, but he is. A heartwrenching excerpt from Robert Levithan’s new book.(Written on my 60th birthday): If I am not grateful, I am truly a fool. When I...
View ArticleIn Dog Years
Robert Levithan’s not sure any more if he’s going to outlive Sophie or if she’s going to outlive him.I live with an overeducated bitch.Sophie is beautiful. She’s an elegant blond with a bit of Grace...
View ArticleAm I Still Safe?
I never thought I’d say this, in what I used to believe was the greatest country in the world, but I don’t feel safe in America. Will I continue to be stripped of my rights? When will it end? Should I...
View ArticleOff The Grid
Robert Levithan travels to Turkey and unplugs from everything. He strives to live in the moment, until he has to return to his world of emails, Skype calls, and constant communication.I am in...
View ArticleFacing Infinity
An excerpt from Robert Levithan’s memoir, Song of an Unlikely Survivor INFINITY: Englewood, New Jersey, 1965:The summer I was fourteen I was hanging out with my next door neighbor, Eric Ginsburg, and...
View ArticleBe Yourself: Everybody Else Is Already Taken
Robert Barsanti believes it just doesn’t get any simpler than that.—-As Oscar Wilde so aptly put it, the only point of it all is to be yourself. Much to my surprise, after seeing Wim Wenders brilliant...
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