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EXCLIVE: 'EMPIRE' TO AIR FIRST BLACK GAY WEDDG ON NETWORK TV
In this exclive vio premiere, Brooklyn-based uple Wil Cope and Josh Rodriguez relay the story of their weddg last October and the power of Black gay love as a part of GLAAD's seri "Black Queer Love Stori.
""Growg up my youth, my childhood, I never thought that I would be able to get married as a gay man, " Cope says. A signer and edian behd the podst Narcisistas and whose "rnchy gay rap alter ego" is Hi Yello, Cope go on to tell the story of how he proposed to Rodriguez at Christmas surround by his now-hband's fay. "We'd never been to a Black gay weddg.
"We felt kd of obligated to show up and be impactful a way that reprented Black gay upl the past that weren't able to celebrate and show their love and have fay there to celebrate wh them, " Cope adds. After five seasons, the show is still fdg a way to ph culture forward by airg the first weddg of a Black, gay uple durg primetime on a major broadst work. “As gay men, we found total acceptance both bridal and regular fashn worlds, ” says Mark Badgley and Jam Mischka, the signer duo behd Badgley Mischka.