Old Gays
The Old Gays are a group of five gay social media personalities and LGBT rights activists. The group consists of Robert Reeves (born October 28, 1943), Michael "Mick" Peterson (born 1956), Bill Lyons (born May 18, 1944), Jessay Martin (born July 31, 1953) and Joc Anderson. At the time of their formation, their age range was from mid-60s to late 70s. They are the subject of an upcoming unscripted docuseries produced by Brian Graden Media. Biographies 
Robert Reeves grew up attending a rural Southern Baptist church. He worked as a city planner. While living in San Francisco, he was diagnosed with HIV in 1987. He moved to Cathedral City, California, in the 1990s. Bill Lyons grew up in southern California. He moved to the Bay Area in 1965, staying there until the late 1990s. Reeves met Lyons in San Francisco in the 1980s. The two later reconnected in 2005. Michael Peterson grew up in rural Texas in a Christian family. He has lived in both San Francisco and Los Angeles, and is a former bodybuilder. He first attended a pride event in West Hollywood in 1979. He became friends with Lyons and Reeves after renting a room from them in 2013. Jessay Martin grew up in a religious family in Tennessee. His father died in 1971. He worked as a musician and singer, and at one point moved to Los Angeles. He first attended a pride event in 1982 in West Hollywood. Martin moved in across the street from the other three in 2015. Joc Anderson is a psychologist from nearby Rancho Mirage, specializing in addictive personality disorders. He first appeared in a video dancing to Shania Twain's Man! I Feel Like a Woman! alongside Twain, Lyons, Martin and Justin Fuko on June 30, 2023 before officially joining the group the following August, initially to fill in for Reeves, who had been hospitalized with a urinary tract infection. Online presence 
Lyons, Martin, Reeves and Peterson first began to gain a following in 2018 after a promotional video for Grindr. They gained more followers in March 2021, when their TikToks began going viral. As of November 2021, they have one billion followers across social media platforms. The group resides in Cathedral City, California, with Reeves, Peterson, and Lyons sharing a house and Martin living across the street. Personal lives 
Peterson has an autoimmune disorder. References

21st-century American LGBT people
American LGBT rights activists

American TikTok groups
People from Cathedral City, California
People with HIV/AIDS