Franziska Röber is Research Associate at TUD Dresden University of Technology, Germany.

• Acknowledgements Introduction: Opening Sequence 1. Conventionally Unconventional: The Sitcom2. In The Back Of A Mini: Waiting For God And Later Life Sexualities3. Pretty Fly For Two Old Guys: Homosociality And Later Life (Male) Sexualities4. Walking Into Elton John's Closet: Vicious And Queer Sexualities5. Closing Sequence BIBLIOGRAPHY Films Series References

This highly rewarding book offers fresh insights for any reader concerned with ageing, sexuality and screen representations. Offering a well theorized and thoughtful study of British sitcoms, the book’s explorations of comedic performance effectively refute the reduction of sexuality to heteronormative penile penetration and highlights a wide range of physical intimacies enacted between and within gender categories that effectively transgress established expectations of older characters.

Franziska Röber is Research Associate at TUD Dresden University of Technology, Germany.

• Acknowledgements Introduction: Opening Sequence 1. Conventionally Unconventional: The Sitcom2. In The Back Of A Mini: Waiting For God And Later Life Sexualities3. Pretty Fly For Two Old Guys: Homosociality And Later Life (Male) Sexualities4. Walking Into Elton John's Closet: Vicious And Queer Sexualities5. Closing Sequence BIBLIOGRAPHY Films Series References

This highly rewarding book offers fresh insights for any reader concerned with ageing, sexuality and screen representations. Offering a well theorized and thoughtful study of British sitcoms, the book’s explorations of comedic performance effectively refute the reduction of sexuality to heteronormative penile penetration and highlights a wide range of physical intimacies enacted between and within gender categories that effectively transgress established expectations of older characters.

Franziska Röber is Research Associate at TUD Dresden University of Technology, Germany.

• Acknowledgements Introduction: Opening Sequence 1. Conventionally Unconventional: The Sitcom2. In The Back Of A Mini: Waiting For God And Later Life Sexualities3. Pretty Fly For Two Old Guys: Homosociality And Later Life (Male) Sexualities4. Walking Into Elton John's Closet: Vicious And Queer Sexualities5. Closing Sequence BIBLIOGRAPHY Films Series References

This highly rewarding book offers fresh insights for any reader concerned with ageing, sexuality and screen representations. Offering a well theorized and thoughtful study of British sitcoms, the book’s explorations of comedic performance effectively refute the reduction of sexuality to heteronormative penile penetration and highlights a wide range of physical intimacies enacted between and within gender categories that effectively transgress established expectations of older characters.