"Darrin Houghton, Broadway dancer, and Brad Grabosky, NFL football player, are engaged. However, Brad is reluctant to announce a date for the wedding. His excuse -- he doesn’t want to be the poster child for gay rights in the NFL. Darrin is getting discouraged, wondering if he and Brad are ever going to actually hear wedding bells.
Darrin and the cast of his current musical are to perform on a float in the NYC pride parade. He asks Brad if he plans on coming to the parade. Brad says he’s sorry, but he has an important team meeting to attend.
Downhearted, Darrin heads to the parade alone. Just as he’s about to get up on the float, a commotion breaks out. Darrin turns; what he sees takes his breath away."
Touchdown By Terry O’Reilly Darrin Houghton leaned against the window of the subway train as it rattled along. He was on his way home after a performance of the Broadway show in which he was a dancer. He was tired. And, tired was not a good time to think about his situation with Brad. It had been six months since the wedding of two of Darrin’s fellow dancers from the show. Brad Grabosky, at the time, a very closeted star NFL football player, had surprised Darrin by showing up at the wedding. After the ceremony the two had gone out for drinks and Brad had declared he was ready to live a more open life, saying, “I don’t want to make some big coming out announcement to the media. I want to just let it happen gradually, however that works out.” He then compared the process of his coming ou