I loved him in my heart so much over the years and now he is gone.

Phillip helped him learn how to do reports, and they were “immediately attracted to one another”. “I’d like to have a boyfriend companionship and somebody there when the days get longer,” he wrote.Įlsewhere in the article, Kenneth Felts opened up about meeting Phillip in California in 1957 when he started working at a credit company. He said he is “more concerned” with the “quiet aspects of a relationship” such as holding hands and “being close”. The heartbroken 90-year-old added: “In all the relationships I’ve had since Phillip, nothing has ever measured up to him, and I don’t anticipate that anything ever will.” I posted what I felt was an obituary for him online and people have been overwhelmingly supportive, saying how sorry they are that I missed seeing him. So it’s very difficult and very painful,” Felts said. “But she discovered a week or so ago that he had passed away around two years ago. Kenneth Felts was able to track his first love down, but discovered that he had already passed away.

In an article written for Newsweek, Felts said he began sharing his memoirs about Phillip on Facebook.Ī woman who lives on the East Coast contacted him and told him she would like to try and track his first love down.Īmazingly, the woman was able to track Phillip down. Since then, he has come out to his friends and family, invested in Pride-themed clothes and raised money for an LGBT+ charity.

Kenneth Felts made headlines across the world when he shared his coming out story last month.įelts bravely told his lesbian daughter that his first love was with a man called Phillip – and then, the floodgates opened. A grandfather who came out as gay at the age of 90 is heartbroken after he finally tracked down his first true love, only to discover that he passed away two years ago.

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