At 90 years old, Kenneth Felts realized he’d die one day without most people truly knowing who he was.
“I was going to go to the grave as a straight person,” Felts said.
That’s why, as he wrote a memoir after beating cancer, Felts decided to come out as gay, first to his daughter last year and then to his friends on social media.
“Didn’t mean to, but I put it on a public Facebook and wham! I started getting memos, letters, and everything else,” Felts said. “It’s a freedom that I received from coming out that made it possible to really start enjoying life.”
Felts is just one example of an elder who has found connection through The Center on Colfax’s virtual elder program.
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