Unfortunately older people are statistically much more likely to be bigoted when it comes to accepting difference, and at their stage of life they're unlikely to moderate their views either. Remember it was illegal to be gay until 1967; many of today's pensioners will have grown up in the 1940s and 50s when the powers that be would give anyone found engaging in homosexual behaviour the choice of prison, a mental hospital or 'treatment' in the form of chemical castration or sterilisation. Not a happy period in our history.