90-year-old grandfather Kenh Felts out as gay

Contents:

• A GRANDSON SHARED DISVERG HIS GRANDFATHER'S SECRET GAY LOVE STORY AND IT’S SO PURE
• GAY SYRIAN MAN BEHEAD AND MUTILATED TURKEY
• HAVG A GAY OLD TIME TURKEY
• 90-YEAR-OLD GRANDFATHER OUT AS GAY, SEARCH FOR LONG-LOST LOVE
• 80-YEAR-OLD GRANDPA PLEDG SUPPORT TO GAY GRANDSON IN AN AWOME WAY

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

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. "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. Image ptn, Mr Sankari's body was horribly mutilated, iends told a gay rights groupThe headls, mutilated body of a gay Syrian man has been intified by gay hoemat Istanbul who say he had been gang-raped iends of Muhammad Wisam Sankari told a Turkish gay rights group,, that they had been threatened by vlent male gangs.

"We plaed to the police headquarters but nothg happened, " he source, AFPImage ptn, Turkish police broke up an LGBT rally Istanbul JuneAnother of Mr Sankari's iends, Diya, said the Uned Natns was also failg to protect the gay muny Turkey. It do not matter if you are Syrian or Turkish, if you are gay you are everyone's target. " Diya June, Turkish police fired bber bullets and tear gas to disperse gay activists who tried to hold an LGBT rally Istanbul, spe a ban on the Gay Pri para.

GAY SYRIAN MAN BEHEAD AND MUTILATED TURKEY

Homosexualy is illegal many untri the Middle East and although is not agast the law Turkey, analysts say homophobia remas crimCagil Kasapoglu of the BBC Turkish Service says hate crim agast LGBT dividuals Turkey mostly go unreported. Syrian gay refuge Turkey suffer even more, as their legal stat is prer - they are ually undocumented and most are reluctant to report asslts to police, our reporter Turkish thori ced "safeguardg secury and public orr" as the reason for banng Gay Pri Istanbul this year.

The harassment is also related to a rise homophobic rhetoric nservative media and social media, Cagil Kasapoglu says.

Such rhetoric was ed by Turkish ultra-nservative media when reportg the murr of 49 people June by a gunman a gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, she says.

HAVG A GAY OLD TIME TURKEY

He talks about his experienc of the gay scene, and also giv advice on where to go and what to expect.

But, what about gay people? The Turkish attu towards open homosexualy is ambivalent, to say the least. Homosexualy is not mentned the Turkish Legal Co so is neher protected nor persecuted.

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

While male homosexual behavur is unrstood (though not ndoned), lbianism has simply not entered the Turkish psyche. Gay visors to Turkey will be treated no differently.

Anyone lookg for a wtern style gay scene will be disappoted. No other cy Turkey has a gay scene worthy of the name, not even Ankara (the pal) or Izmir (the most wtern-leang cy). This is not an ditn of wispread homosexual behavur (though some of may be).

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.

80-YEAR-OLD GRANDPA PLEDG SUPPORT TO GAY GRANDSON IN AN AWOME WAY

Recently, he went to a tattoo parlor and got an equal sign tattooed on his wrist as a symbol of solidary wh his gay grandson, Joe.