They were still cuddled together, a dazed and sweaty family of three, on Cassidy’s bathroom floor when he and the boy’s daddy agreed on Howie’s name—“Howie got him is kind of a crazy story,” Jax laughed, looking into their future of Where’d this kid come from?
Shortly before Howie turned one, Jax fulfilled his obligations to the Colorado parole board. A month later, Cassidy was among the nine Republicans to vote with the unanimous Dems to legalize same-s*x marriage.
Their actual I-do’s were traded in a small, same-jeans-as-always lakeside ceremony. But the wedding portrait snapped on the Capitol steps—Cassidy squinting into the sunset in a suit, Jax, hair slicked into submission, mugging with the baby in his arms—was campaign website gold, and made the cover of Mile High Magazine’s annua
