“She was just in tears because she felt bad because she couldn't be there to help me through it,” he said of her reaction when he finally did tell her. It’s a win-win for them, a win-win for us.” “It's like we seem to be making a difference in these young people and to some older people, as well. “I have cried, and they have been tears of joy,” Jessay Martin, 67, told TODAY.

Louis, whenever I would go to a gay bar it was always through a back alley door.' Jon Premosch for TODAY Louis and then San Francisco up until 1990, before moving to the desert outside of Palm Springs to focus on his sculpting.

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. Based 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.