90-year-old grandfather Kenh Felts out as gay

Contents:

• A GAY MEN SQUASHG STORY
• 90-YEAR-OLD GRANDFATHER OUT AS GAY, SEARCH FOR LONG-LOST LOVE
• WATCH WHAT HAPPENS WHEN 'THE OLD GAYS' MEET A YOUNG FAN WHO LOV DRS

A GAY MEN SQUASHG STORY

R/SudnlyGay. This sub is for photos, vios, gifs, or stori of people who somehow, unwtgly or unexpectedly, engaged gay activi. ‘Sectn 28 changed my life’: Patrick Pope (left) and David Rhos, as they appear the Centre for Ageg Better mpaign (Alexanr Camada)When Patrick, a 73-year-old gay man om Manchter, worked as a teacher a Catholic school the late Eighti, he was nonted daily by the homophobia of the era.

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

‘We don’t have gay people’. Patrick is one of four LGBT+ people I spoke wh about their experienc as “gay veterans”. “I was always told on the gay scene that once you’re past 24, you’re over the hill, ” he tells me.

Sectn 28, the ernment act passed 1988 that prohibed lol thori and schools om “promotg the teachg of the acceptabily of homosexualy”, had a profound impact on Patrick. “I was gog to have children wh my gay iend Leictershire and he died of Aids, ” Liz remembers. “At that perd, I went to so many funerals – I lost so many male gay iends.

WATCH WHAT HAPPENS WHEN 'THE OLD GAYS' MEET A YOUNG FAN WHO LOV DRS

”‘I went to so many funerals – I lost so many male gay iends’: Jo (left) and Liz (Alexanr Camada)For Jo, the troductn of equali legislatn signed to protect LGBT+ people has been paramount. “In the Seventi, Manchter’s chief of police, Jam Anrson, said that gay men ‘had g to them’ and that people wh Aids were ‘ a csp of their makg’. Durg our nversatns, several issu me up wh regulary: a lack of specialist servic for LGBTQ+ muni, ncerns about hog and olr life re, and fears about havg to go back the closet at vulnerable pots their remembers lookg after her dad’s , a gay man, after he went to rintial re later life.

”And when to their stat as “elr gays”, all are uned their enthiasm for later life. (Male Gas Story) by BorgMaroni, leratureChuck D., We Thank Thee (Male Gas Story) by BorgMaroni, leratureFallg Leav (Male Gas Story) by BorgMaroni, leratureSurprise Dutch Oven (Gay Fart story) by aNSFWacunt, leratureA Smelly Friday by KiperCrow, leratureTo Break or not to Break the Barrier? 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.