Gay old grandads
This is inspiring.
Source: Facebook (@kennethfelts)
Kenneth Felts has come out as gay in a viralFacebook post.
The Colorado native inspired millions of people worldwide with his efforts to reconnect with his long-lost affection. The year-old grandfather said that Covid inspired him to appear out.
He started working on a memoir during the lockdown and knew that he couldn't compose his story without being adj about who he is.
Kenneth was brought up in a strict religious household in Kansas and explained why he kept silent saying;
"In when I was 12, I realised I was gay. If you came out, it really would cost you — your family, your job, all of your relationships."
In an interview with NBC, Kenneth talked about having to hide his sexuality for so long.
"I had been keeping this secret most of my life, and I had planned to take it to the grave".
In his original viral Facebook post, Kenneth spoke about his long-lost-love, Philip.
Sadly Philip passed away a couple of years ago before they could be reunited. However, Kenneth doesn't feel remorse his decision to come out publicly an
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Ronald Blank and his wife moved to the US from Poland just after the conclusion of World War II. At the time being gay, according to Blank, was “a crime, and you were condemned to choose either suicide or life in a closet. I decided to live.”
In an interview with YouTube Star Davey Wavy ahead of a documentary being released about him by his grandson, Blank spoke about his torment.
“I was born and was all my life gay.”
“I told them the whole tragedy of my life, and then they understood what happened to me,” Blank said.
He told his wife of 67 years after she had given birth to their second child, but stood by him until he decided to tell the family.
At years-old, Blank told his children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren that he was gay.
When asked by the interviewer if he wanted a boyfriend or companion now that he was out the now year-old said
Thomas Gass, a dentist in California, has survived the curse—twice. The curse? Gass is a gay man whose only sexual attraction is to men significantly older than he is.
Gass lost his first partner, 28 years his senior, through the slowly deteriorating effects of Lou Gehrig’s disease after they had been together for 13 years. After recovering from his grief, he initiate love again with a noun 18 years older but endured another tragic loss when his second partner died of pancreatic cancer after they had spent 17 years together. Still a relatively young man, Gass might wonder whether or not to take a chance on loving an older man again. For him, however, the choice is between an older man or no man at all. Gass and his friends—all of whom had lost older life partners—have labeled their abiding sexual attraction “the curse of being attracted to older men.”
I began to study same-sex relationships with age disparities while conducting research for my book, Finally Out: Letting Go of Living Straight. Gass and I started to correspond after he and his friends had read and discussed my essay