He began writing a memoir, jotting down memories that included Phillip, a man he had feelings for decades earlier. He felt isolated, and even moreso when the pandemic struck. In 2019, then 89-year-old Felts began treatment for cancer. I didn’t want to be outed because I could lose custody of my daughter.” I was being very careful and dressing very conservatively all the time because I never wanted people to know that I was gay. I was doing my best to be as straight as I could,” said Felts. “I got married in 1963 and had a child in 1972. He eventually joined the Navy, went to college and met a young woman. Felts was raised in a conservative, Christian home that went to church every Sunday and Wednesday. Ken Felts knew he was gay at the age of 12, but he says that wasn’t acceptable in the 1940s.
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