The "Gay Generation Gap" article by Dr. Russel and Dr. Bohan is very interesting - and controversial at some places, especially for the elders who have to accept that their political views are not necessarily shared by the youth. But does this necessarily mean that there is a
real difference between generations? The authors neglected the role of the personal developent of an individual - it is possible that with due age, youngsters will develope very similar views as olders now. It is but natural, that a very young man cares less about the "community sense" and "historic contextes", and instead is looking for a suitable partner and a good job. With time, the accents shift a little bit.
The authors certainly have right with their assumption that the generation gap will be self-sustainable, if nothing is done to overcome this gap. Whereas there
always has been a certain continuity among homosexual intellectuals through millenia (thanks to university libraries), the "working boy" was practically isolated from the gay cultural heritage. This has changed in the last decades (at least in wealthy countries), and with the means of the Internet the desolate isolation of gay youth seems indeed overcome. The plentitude of ressources shall not deceive us about their quality - there is still much to be done to achieve true cultural boost in gay communities. I suspect that much of the bravado of the young gays comes from the understandable wish not to belong to the "loosers". Certainly, they are not as unhappy as their predecessors were at the same age, but also far not as happy as their heterosexual peers are now.
Nevertheless, we indeed must not forget that our live is generally good and there are many joys to be discovered.

Solely, while reading our statistics and reports from all corners of the world, one easily forgets this.