This one is for all my straight guys. I love you. I really, really do, but we need to discuss some heavy myths you have with my people. It’s kind of weird how often these myths come up in conversations, movies, TV shows, and books – perhaps that’s why you think they’re real. But hear it from the horse’s mouth… most, if not all, are total bullsh*t. Let’s start with these:

1. We all flirt with you.

Again, flirting is always going to be judged on the eyes of the man being flirted with. I can easily smile at someone in line at Starbucks no problem, but it’s they who decide to interpret it as flirting or friendly. Maybe you want gay guys to flirt with you, maybe you want to be able to say that all homos flirt with you (giving you a reason to be “uncomfortable” around us). Trust me when I say you’re not that hot.

2. We jerk off to you at night.

There have been plenty of times I’ve jerked it a few with my fellow straight guys in mind, but I’ve also seen some straight men nearly wet themselves after seeing a really nice car on the street – does that mean they want to f*ck it? Probably not.

As a dating coach, I speak with amazing women over 50 daily about their dating lives. They communicate the desperation they are feeling about ever finding a good man to share their lives with.

Online dating has become a tremendous source of frustration and failure for them. Many become despondent at the very thought of having to go back online after a relationship ends. In fact, quite a few have completely stopped dating because the constant rejection or disinterest from men over 50 has become too painful for them.

After asking a couple of questions about their dating lives, I’ve consistently found most women really don’t understand who these over-50 men are or what they are looking for in the women they’d like to date.

I’d like to share with you eight tips about men that you can start using right away. I’ve had clients use this advice and go from zero dates on their calendars to men falling over themselves to get to know these ladies better.

Tip 1. Appreciate a man for who he is.

Men are wonderful but they aren’t women. They don’t think like a woman, nor do they communicate like a woman. This means don’t expect a man to act like a woman or you’re guaranteed to be disappointed.

Tip 2. Men over 50 love when you bring their masculinity out in them.

They have no interest in competing with you. To them, that’s like dating a man. The key is learning to come into your true feminine power that compliments their masculine power.

Tip 3. Men show you love with their actions.

Hollywood has messed with our heads on this one. On the big screen, they show us men like Tom Cruise’s character in the movie, Jerry McGuire, professing his love with romantic speeches that end in the famous words, “You complete me.” Real men show you their love by cutting your grass and giving you their coat when you’re cold. If you expect love to come in words, you could be waiting a very long time.

Tip 4. Men want to give to you.

Let them open the door for you or change that light bulb you can’t reach. It makes them happy to please you. All they want in return is to be appreciated and thanked. If you do this, they’ll do anything you want, which leads us to Tip 5.

After three debates, including the one vice-presidential debate, there had not been a single question about LGBT people. Even with notoriously homophobic Indiana Gov. Mike Pence onstage, the topic never came up.

Then it happened again Wednesday. Or, more precisely, it didn’t happen again.

And we’re left to wonder what this all means. Maybe LGBT Americans ought to move on, as if truly nothing took place. Or maybe with that unasked question, the nation silently crossed a threshold into the future, one in which LGBT people are no longer considered so contentious that we’re a topic of debate at the highest levels of politics. The next presidential debate won’t happen until 2020. My better half imagines how vastly the world could evolve by then.

The realist in me says, mockingly, that maybe in 2020 the Republican Party (or whatever party replaces it) won’t nominate a candidate like Donald Trump who opposes marriage equality, who is considering barring transgender people from the military, who is OK letting states ban transgender people from using the bathroom that matches their gender identity, who wants to let business owners turn away LGBT customers by citing their religion. The official Republican Party platform of 2016 condones reparative therapy and a litany of other LGBT civil rights abuses.

The German government has announced that it will make reparations to the men imprisoned under Paragraph 175, a provision in the country’s criminal code that outlawed sodomy until 1994.

Authorities also plan to expunge the records of the 50,000 jailed under the law.

Although 140,000 people were arrested in total, the country’s justice minister, Heiko Maas, has estimated that around 5,000 individuals - meaning those who are still living - stand to claim the reported payout of 30 million Euros. Mass stated that the amount of financial restitution will be based upon personal assessments of those incarcerated. Factors will include the length of time the individual spent behind bars.

“We will never be able to remove these outrages committed by this country but we want to rehabilitate the victims,” Mass said in a statement. “The convicted homosexual men should no longer have to live with the black mark of a criminal conviction.”

How many people in the UK are gay, lesbian or bisexual? The Office for National Statistics reckons it's 1.5% while the Kinsey report says it's 10%. Who's right?

For every 100 people in Britain, just 1 will identify themselves as gay or lesbian according to the latest government statistics. The numbers (which include gender, location and age) may come as a surprise - but why?

1.5% of the UK?

In its 'Integrated Household Survey', the Office for National Statistics asks 178,197 people about their sexual identity - and the vast majority of them choose to answer.

93.5% of people said they were 'heterosexual' or 'straight', just 1.1% said they were 'gay' or 'lesbian' and 0.4% said they were bisexual. The small fraction that was left either refused to answer or said they didn't know. Altogether, amounts to about 545,000 homosexual and 220,000 bisexual adults in the UK.