Preppy gay at bar

Happy holiday season, Caftan readers! Thank you once again for supporting this project of having long talks with older gay men about our amazing lives. But then I finally do an interview with someone like Pat Rogers, 79, who lives now in L. And this is a good one. Pat was an easy-going delight to talk to.

But this interview preppy worked for me, especially when Pat discusses, with total enthusiasm and detail, his thriving sex life at nearly 80, including his highly successful penile implant. Oh, hey! I wish you all the very best holiday season and New Year. I have to pinch myself a little that what, more than a year ago, was bar an idea I wondered if I could pull off now has over 1, followers.

Please tell folks about it and help me expand the list. And with that, I give you Pat Rogers! It was the pre-iPhone era, where, if you wanted to capture an evening, you actually had to bring a damn camera! Tim: Pat, thank you so much for agreeing to talk to The Caftan Chronicles about your iconic 80s, 90s and 00s gay NYC restaurants and bars.

So may I start by being so bold as to ask your age? Pat: I'm I'll be 80 the day after Christmas. I've still got good energy and I stay active. I have a master's degree in theater, so I'm trying to get with some of the local theaters here like Geffen and the Pasadena Playhouse to do gay work.

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I live in Hollywood, on the top floor of a high-rise on La Brea and Franklin, with my dog, Miku, a Shiba Inu who is the love of my life. Pat: I was born in in Wichita Falls, Texas. I was a pretty blond child, very sheltered. My dad was a local distributor for Frito-Lay overseeing 22 counties in Oklahoma and Texas.

He was a very hard worker who taught me all about hard work, and it rubbed off. I grew up in a neighborhood with about 10 other boys my age, but I wasn't allowed to go out that much because I was supposed to stay home and practice piano. When I was very young, my grandmother took my sister and me to a drive-in to see " Mr.

I was a rebellious kid. Pat: I didn't admit it until my mid- to late-thirties, but I knew all along I was gay. I spent 20 to 30 years trying to cure myself.