When David Bennett and Andy Barnes meet, they fall in love and create a family, which is completed with the adoption of Brad Sturgis, orphaned after the death of his parents.<br><br>David, Andy, and Brad embrace the joys and challenges of being a gay family. From horse shows, family celebrations, a wedding on the beach to bedside vigils, football games to identity crises, David and Andy face life together with steadfast love punctuated with passionate physical expression.

David and Andrew Book 2: With These Rings

“And I’m gay. Don’t get me wrong I’m okay with that—”


“But being a jock and being gay doesn’t sit well with coaches and players. There’s a lot of anti-gay stuff thrown around in the locker room.”


Since Andy hadn’t experienced this aspect of gay society, he was getting a lesson in homophobic reality. I had been there, done that all through high school, college and my married life—living in two different worlds, trying to hide one from the other. Andy had discovered his attraction to men after he was married and divorced soon after that discovery. He’d never had cognitive dissonance, appearing to be one thing on the outside while the real you was being pushed down inside. Obviously Brad was experiencing this.


Andy looked as if he were considering this new perspective on being gay.


Chapter 18