“It was a void in my life that had suddenly been filled by another person who, apparently, had some of the same needs,' he said. They “were just happy with each other,” Felts said, looking back on their relationship now. “You would immediately be called a pervert.” “A lot of them telling me that they've got more courage now to come out.' Kenneth Felts / FacebookĪnd so the secret part of his life remained a secret, even after he joined Navy and met a man named Phillip, whom he fell in love with and devoted two years of his life to. “If you came out, it really would cost you - your family, your job, all of your relationships,” Felts explained.
Reverend Francis Hughes of St Pancras Church in New York is accused.
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. A Catholic priest has been arrested by the FBI for allegedly sending explicit texts and photos to a 15-year-old boy on Grindr.
