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What ever happened to that older farm guy...

posted 15 years ago by alpeaston
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The older guy in the movie who lost his the battle about partner's will and lost his home to some of his lover's greedy relatives; I would really love to know what the outcome of that was.

As I watched him suffer at the hands of these greedy people I thought MY GOD, If someone put me in that position (after 25 years of being in a committed relationship with a person) I would probably shoot them!

Now I understand that sounds extreme, but everyone here knew giving these greedy scumbags the ranch was wrong and abiding by the will and letting the surviving lover have it was right. The relatives of his dead lover certainly damn well knew that he was the person who should have gotten the house, so did their corrupt lawyers, even the judge knew it but becuase of a single stupid error -only one notary on the will instead of two he lost the house??? And get this, there was no question about the signature being his lovers and that the deceased lover wanted this man to have this house!!!

The outrageous injustice of it makes my blood boil, I have to say, if that happened to me (especially at an age when I could not possible rebuild my life and it would mean being homeless) that I would be forced to kill those relatives.

At least justice would be served, evil greedy scumbags would be dead or injured and I would not have to worry about being homeless at as an old man!

[–] QueenBunny 11 years ago

After watching this documentary tonight I wanted to know what happened to him too. I felt really sorry for Sam, and I understand what you mean about shooting the relatives. I couldn't have just taken what those "cousins" did laying down. My temper would've gotten the best of me, and I would've been an old man on death row. But it seems that even though Sam lost the house in the end, he's been able to move on.

http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20062579,00.html

The above link has an article about him. It's the newest info I could find. I have pasted everything they mentioned about Sam below:

(Oklahoma rancher Sam Beaumont knows the feeling. For him, gay life in the West was a tender, quarter-century love story that began with a chance meeting in Tulsa, back in 1977. The strapping Beaumont, now 62, was sitting beside the Arkansas River when Earl Meadows, a soft-spoken comptroller for a manufacturing firm, walked up and started a conversation. “We just talked all day and night,” Beaumont recalls. They had much in common, notably that both were divorced and gay. Not long afterward they settled on a 60-acre ranch in Bristow, Okla., raised a small herd of cattle—and Beaumont's three children—and stayed together until Meadows's death from cancer in 2000.

“We loved each other,” Beaumont says. “We had a better relationship than most straight couples.” Beaumont says there is an entire subculture of gay men living under the radar in rural states like Oklahoma. “You'll have some who are sort of in your face, then you'll have ranchers who are quiet about it. Then you've got the ones that claim they're straight but have sex with men. And when they come home at night and their wives ask if they've been with a woman, well, they don't have to lie.”

Beaumont nursed his partner through his final illness. “The house and land were in Earl's name,” he says. “He left me everything in his will, but he had only one witness signature.” Oklahoma requires two signatures; Meadows's cousins contested the will, and Beaumont lost his home. He eventually met a new partner, Marvin Reed, 65, online, and they now share a 350-acre ranch near Cromwell, Okla., a cluttered one-bedroom home and a menagerie of livestock, ducks, dogs, cats and rabbits. But the great love of his life is never far away. “I think about Earl every single day,” Beaumont says wistfully. “Sometimes I'd have liked to kill him. But I sure do miss him.”)