Twenty-two years ago, I asked my dad if he was gay. Then he was gone.

Contents:

• GAY DADDY PORN VIOS
• 90-YEAR-OLD GRANDFATHER OUT AS GAY, SEARCH FOR LONG-LOST LOVE
• THE GAY FATHER I NEVER KNEW

GAY DADDY PORN VIOS

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.

I also knew that my dad mt be gay—bee, well, of urse. While I’d never met an out gay man, I kd of knew what they were supposed to be like om movi and TV, and Dad f the mold: He loved to ok; he cleaned obssively; he kept the Internatnal Male talog around, bee, he said, “I like the cloth. “You know, ” I said to Dad, “I asked Mom once if you were gay.

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

“Gay? “I’m not gay.

THE GAY FATHER I NEVER KNEW

” she’d said our kchen—after a long nversatn she’d had wh an openly gay iend om llege, Pat, who had, apparently, been a nfidant of Dad’s.

Years later Mom told me that, acrdg to Pat, Dad had been active Lexgton and Louisville’s gay club scene.

) But to actually let me —to s on that blue blanket, look me the eye and tell me he was gay—was somethg he uldn’t do. “I asked Mom once if you were gay, ” I would have said.