Meet Kenneth Felts, the 90-year-old who just came out as gay

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At age 90, Kenneth Felts chose a way to celebrate pride month that few of his peers probably could imagine: he came out of the closet publicly to his wide circle of family and friends.

A former counselor and supervisor for his state of Colorado, Felts says he’s known he was gay since he was 12. He decided to finally go public while trying to write his memoirs during the COVID-19 pandemic. He began to relive a romance he had in the 1950s with a man named Philip, whom he identifies as his one true love. Wrestling with the memory finally pushed him to go public.

“Coming out in the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s was horrendous,” Felts tells The Denver Post. “That was part of the reason I didn’t ever consider coming out (before). There was no gay community, there really weren’t gay organizations or anything. People who came out, came out on their own, without support. And I guess I didn’t have the courage to face society at that time, so I just went ahead and buried it.”

Ultimately, Felts split from Philip, and the two lost track of one another…

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