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
