“…Since the late 1960s, studies in gerontology have addressed male homosexuality 1,2,3,4 . In different areas of knowledge (from biomedicine to social psychology), "positive" markers of old age have emerged, which meanings were based on a binary discourse about life, social relations, and selfpolarizing heteronormative representations 2,3 , grasping on the futurity ideal, mainly by emphasizing monogamy, marriage, reproduction, and the nuclear family, as well as pathologizing sexual and affective relations with the same sex, whether in psychiatric or epidemiological terms.…”