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June is LGBT Pri Month, and one Black gay uple is on a missn to add a ltle lor to LGBT reprentatn prt magaz.

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CREATIVE DIRECTOR BEHD ‘BLACK GAY WEDDGS’ TALKS TURNG DISCRIMATN INTO SUCCS

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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. LOS ANGELES -- Two Black gay newlyweds on the ver of a Black-owned LGBTQ magaze is the history-makg publitn created by Lawrence and Michael Broughton om Los married uple lnched BGW Elevate Magaze last wter.

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For ntext, 2012 Jet Magaze, a hallmark publitn for Black news and culture, featured the first Black gay uple s weddg sectn. Lawrence and Michael's spiratn to produce their self-fund magaze me om their popular social media page aptly lled Black Gay Weddgs, which shows stunng imag of gay, lbian, non-bary and trans upl of lor tyg the knot around the world.

And like many of the long-standg and revered Black publitns that me before , Black Gay Weddgs was also birthed om discrimatn.

Dewayne Queen, Atlanta-based Creative Director of Black Gay Weddgs, tells The Reckong how founrs, Michael (COO) and Lawrence (CEO) Broughton’s nuptials set the wheels motn for the platform to celebrate Black LGBTQ+ upl while workg to ensure that what happened to them would never happen to another uple. And so 2018, Black Gay Weddgs, the platform was birthed out of the hate that they received for their unn, ” he said. Inclivy is not jt a buzzword Black Gay Weddgs isn’t jt a place where newlyweds are celebrated.

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Creative Director Behd ‘Black Gay Weddgs’ Talks Turng Discrimatn Into Succs — The Reckong .

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