COVID-19 pandemic. He began to relive a romance he had in the 1950s with a man named Philip, whom he identifies as his one true love.
Wrestling with the memory finally pushed him to go public.“Coming out in the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s was horrendous,” Felts tells The Denver Post. “That was part of the reason I didn’t ever consider coming out (before).
There was no gay community, there really weren’t gay organizations or anything. People who came out, came out on their own, without support.