“If you came out, it really would cost you - your family, your job, all of your relationships,” Felts explained.
As a child growing up in a strictly religious household in Kansas, he felt unable to express that to anyone else or pursue any such relationship - at least until he left home.Įventually, he intimate encounters with other men, but he never spoke of them, because in the 1950s and ‘60s, it seemed impossible for him to do so.
