At the age of 90, Kenh Felts me out as gay and cid to search for the love of his life. The Colorado grandfather's g out story went viral.
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- 90-YEAR-OLD GRANDFATHER OUT AS GAY, SEARCH FOR LONG-LOST LOVE
- PEOPLE WHO ARE GAY, LBIAN OR BI HAVE MORE MENTAL HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE E PROBLEMS, SURVEY FDS
- AMERIN IDOL CONTTANT'S GAY GRANDPA WS JUDG' HEARTS
90-YEAR-OLD GRANDFATHER OUT AS GAY, SEARCH FOR LONG-LOST LOVE
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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. Where 's legal to discrimate agast gays at work.
Dpe creasg acceptance of the LGBTQ+ muny, at least some circl, adults who intify as gay, lbian or bisexual are more likely than those who intify as straight to have ser thoughts of suici and mental health ndns cludg major prsive episos, and they are more likely to mise substanc like alhol or dgs, acrdg to a new US ernment report. And about a third of all bisexual people and gay mal said they had a problem wh a substance e disorr the year before they filled out the survey, the report found.
PEOPLE WHO ARE GAY, LBIAN OR BI HAVE MORE MENTAL HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE E PROBLEMS, SURVEY FDS
Adults who intify as gay, lbian, or bisexual are more likely than adults who intify as straight to experience ser thoughts of suici, mental health ndns cludg major prsive episos and they are more likely to e substanc like alhol or dgs, acrdg to a new US ernment report. * granddaddy gay *
However, gay, bi and straight men seemed to have siar substance e patterns: There was no difference smokg between straight and gay mal, for example, and the rate of bge and heavy drkg the month before they took the survey was the same among gay, bi and straight men.
Jeremy Kidd, a psychiatrist who has worked on studi to improve health out for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer populatns. “LGBT dividuals experience addnal strs as a rult of discrimatn and stigma, stigma both at the societal level but also the way that livg a society that privileg heterosexualy that has homophobic laws and polici to sort of teach LGB people even to view themselv as ferr, ” Kidd said.
AMERIN IDOL CONTTANT'S GAY GRANDPA WS JUDG' HEARTS
Bisexuals may face more challeng bee they may be experiencg mory strs a way that is different om people who intify as gay or lbian, he said. “For stance, you n image beg environments that might be validatg of people who have gay and lbian inti but might eher not regnize bisexual inty – so they are sort of visible that space – or might be really validatg of dividuals wh bisexual inty, even while the environment is affirmg or at least a ltle more ntral to folks who are gay or lbian, ” Kidd said. Most prompts for gay porn, meanwhile, explibly flt to people of ambiguoly LatX scent wh an unrcut hairstyle.