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Andrew’s got a great post up about gay cowboys—real ones—and why gay marriage matters even to them. Especially to them, in this instance. It’s heartbreaking, and it isn’t fiction.
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Andrew’s got a great post up about gay cowboys—real ones—and why gay marriage matters even to them. Especially to them, in this instance. It’s heartbreaking, and it isn’t fiction.
This is without a doubt one of the saddest stories I've ever read. The most devastating sentence is the last, "He [Beaumont] said he was continuing to fight the cousins, who are suing for back rent for the years he lived on the ranch."
How people, like those cousins, can be so evil, I'll never know.
Yeah, Amy J's right: This story was the heartbreaking center of "Tying the Knot," and "Tying the Knot" is surprisingly great...
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The Beaumont-Meadows story was one of the ones featured in the documentary "Tying the Knot" - I think it screened at the Seattle GLBT film festival two years ago. The film caught up with them just as the vulture cousins were starting the legal fight to take everything away. It's a great film... far better than most gay marriage documentaries. (It also, I believe, follows the story of a cop who was shot in the line of duty, and her partner couldn't collect her benefits.)