'Katy Has Two Grampas' tells a fay's story of gay grandfathers

Contents:

• 90-YEAR-OLD GRANDFATHER OUT AS GAY, SEARCH FOR LONG-LOST LOVE
• GAY GRANDFATHERS: INTERGENERATNAL RELATNSHIPS AND MENTAL HEALTH
• A GRANDSON SHARED DISVERG HIS GRANDFATHER'S SECRET GAY LOVE STORY AND IT’S SO PURE
• 95-YEAR-OLD GREAT GRANDFATHER OUT AS GAY
• MY MAD GAY GRANDFATHER AND ME
• 'KATY HAS TWO GRAMPAS' TELLS A FAY'S STORY OF GAY GRANDFATHERS
• WHEN GRANDPA FOUND OUT I WAS GAY

90-YEAR-OLD GRANDFATHER OUT AS GAY, SEARCH FOR LONG-LOST LOVE

Silverdaddi vios: handsome silverdaddi wh other mature men, ol men and grandpa gay men. Kenh Felts is a ttament to the age of 90, he’s fally openg up about an sential part of his life that he’s long kept hidn: Felts is gay. “In 1942 when I was 12, I realized I was gay, ” the nonagenarian a child growg up a strictly relig hoehold Kansas, he felt unable to exprs that to anyone else or pursue any such relatnship — at least until he left home.

“A lot of them tellg me that they've got more urage now to e out, ” he said wh a se, also addg, "I'm out, I'm gay and I'm ee. Gay grandfathers: Intergeneratnal relatnships and mental health.

This study explored the experienc of 79 gay grandfathers wh their adult children and grandchildren.

GAY GRANDFATHERS: INTERGENERATNAL RELATNSHIPS AND MENTAL HEALTH

Consistent wh fdgs of earlier rearch on heterosexual grandparents, gay grandfathers reported closer relatnships wh grandchildren who lived near them and wh whom they had equent ntact.

In addn, gay grandfathers who reported that they had disclosed their sexual orientatn to grandchildren reported closer relatnships wh them. Consistent wh fdgs for heterosexual grandparents, greater perceived social support was associated wh better mental health among gay grandfathers. Th, over and above factors known to affect tergeneratnal relatnships and mental health among olr people, we found that some variabl specific to gay grandfathers were also important predictors of their relatnship qualy wh their grandchildren and of their mental health.

"I have recently disvered that my grandfather is gay. That way, you’re potg out an cint but not sayg ‘HI I KNOW THAT YOU ARE GAY’ bee that might be difficult for you to say whout feelg unfortable.

A GRANDSON SHARED DISVERG HIS GRANDFATHER'S SECRET GAY LOVE STORY AND IT’S SO PURE

Those fay members didn’t need to expla that what they meant was that they supported me and that they loved me as a gay person. Sama'an Ashrawi, mic producer and host of The Nostalgia Tap podst, is ed to tellg other people's stori, but on Sunday he opened up about a more personal one -- his grandfather's gay love story -- on love story thread has been liked almost 200, 000 tim.

95-YEAR-OLD GREAT GRANDFATHER OUT AS GAY

"My Grandpa Dave told me he was sure he was gay when he was movg to his dorm room hman year of llege and there was a boy 'wh the prettit ey, '" Ashrawi began. Roman Blank knew he was gay when he was jt five years old, but hid his sexualy for ne —who was married for 60 years and has two children, five grandchildren and one great grandchild—cid to e out last year when he was 95. "I jt told them pla, that I was born, and was all my life, gay.

Others assumed he was exclively gay. A grandfather spir his grandson to live full of honty and love When Jefey Perri was ne, his grandfather Tony Perri me out to him as gay.

When Jefey Perri was ne, his grandfather Tony Perri me out to him as gay. When Jefey Perri was growg up, his grandfather, Tony, me out to him as a gay man.

MY MAD GAY GRANDFATHER AND ME

In 2009, they me to StoryCorps to reflect on that PERRI: I remember you askg me, do Grandma Shirley know you're gay? Do my father know you're gay? Do my mother know you're gay?

And a lot of thgs has happened to the gay muny. What do beg a gay man mean to you this stage of your life?

'KATY HAS TWO GRAMPAS' TELLS A FAY'S STORY OF GAY GRANDFATHERS

You know, a lot of gay men, fay men who e out, lose that. When I speak to people that I have a gay grandfather, they're always amazed. When Jefey Perri was growg up Rochter, New York, his grandfather, Tony Perri, me out to him as gay.

But when no one has seen a gay grandparent they might not thk of this as normal or even thk about at all, " said Schanke, 80, a retired llege profsor. Gay grampas reprentLyford had jt graduated om high school a small town Iowa when her father and mother divorced.

2015 when the Supreme Court regnized the unns, the father-dghter team were surprised when they uld not get their hands on picture books wh unambiguo pictns of married gay grandparents. Msage of clnLyford's experience as the dghter of a gay dad proved transformative. "Gay people have to ntue to e out.

WHEN GRANDPA FOUND OUT I WAS GAY

So do children wh gay parents and so their grandchildren, too. One day, my mom received a phone ll om her sister Karen who said, “Dad jt lled me to ask if Stty was gay. “I am gay, ” I said.

“The Bible is clear that homosexualy is a s.