Without love, Tim Deaton-Conway might not be alive today. Deaton-Conway said most of his adult life was spent “drugging and using and abusing the system and not really contributing to anything.” Until 16 years ago when he met Chad Conway, his now husband, who encouraged him to get clean and stay clean ever since.
“He (Chad) was the first person to make me see that I was worth a different way to live,” Deaton-Conway said. “And then one day it was just like. . . he turned the light on.”

Tim Deaton-Conway, right, gives his husband, Chad Conway, a goodbye kiss before Conway leaves for a cattle sale in Pennsylvania, at their house in Hazard, Kentucky, on Saturday, Oct. 25, 2025. The couple owns a cattle farm that has been in Conway’s family since the early 2000s.