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Christian Alarid, a 24-year-old staff sergeant in the Air Force, recently teamed up with the Hawaii Visitors and Convention Bureau to surprise his boyfriend, Shayne Barnes, 27, with a surprise proposal that led to a picturesque seaside wedding on the same day! Barnes, who just recently completed his service in the U.S. Marine Corps as a corporal and is now a full-time student at Hawaii Pacific University, thought he was participating in a photo shoot, but little did he know...

When Alfredo Garcia III checked into Chicago’s Seasons Hospice MacNeal Inpatient Center on July 18, he was dying of stage IV liver cancer and had Hodgkin’s lymphoma spreading through his lymphatic system. Bryan Pottow, director of the hospice, asked Garcia his dying wishes. He wished to marry his boyfriend of five years and “the love of his life,” Erwin Sigueroa. The two had been lifelong friends growing up together in the Little Village neighborhood. So Pottow helped organize the wedding. Although the...

The daughter of a since-deceased employee who worked at a now-long-gone photo shop in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania recently discovered some photos from a 1957 gay marriage hidden in her mom’s attic. And now Our One Story — a documentary series uncovering the stories behind artifacts from the ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives in Los Angeles, California — is trying to figure out who the men in the photos are. Here’s the story: When a man dropped off the gay wedding photos...

Among the reserves on the roster this afternoon in Las Vegas are Courtney Vandersloot and Allie Quigley of the Chicago Sky, two out teammates who quietly married in December. They returned home to Seattle last month to celebrate six months since their wedding, as the Seattle Times reported, and two years since their engagement. Sports Illustrated revealed it was June 2017 when Vandersloot and Quiqley — or “The Vanderquigs” as they call themselves — got together for a relaxing...

Lance Bass has reminisced on the first time he ever came out to Britney Spears. During an appearance on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen, the host told the audience that the former NSYNC star told Britney he was gay to stop her from crying on the night of her first wedding in 2004. “It was the night she got married, the first time, to Jason,” he said. “I went up to Vegas to see the craziness that was happening...

The two figure skaters had been engaged for two years before they married in a beautiful ceremony in northern Spain, the country where Luis was born. Same-sex marriage has been legal in Spain since 2005. Eric became the first openly gay male athlete to win a gold medal at the Winter Olympics when he competed in the 2018 sporting event in Pyeongchang, South Korea alongside partner Meagan Duhamel. He retired shortly after. Luis is a former national champion in his home...

On June 8, 2019, the love of my life, Emery Ford, became my wife. It was the most perfect, beautiful wedding in Columbia, South Carolina, with all of our family and friends in attendance. Of all the attendees, 13 of them were particularly special — they were my former college teammates from my time playing Division I women’s tennis at Wofford College. Jokingly renaming my wedding the “Tennis Team Reunion,” my teammates cried tears of joy as I walked...

Add two more gay athletes to the growing list of LGBTQ people in sports getting hitched. Eric Radford and Luis Fenero got married last week in northern Spain, near where Fenero was born. The two figure skaters got engaged just over two years ago when Radford proposed on one knee not far from where the two men would eventually marry. The wedding, not surprisingly, included big names in figure skating. Radford’s best men featured Olympians Dylan Moscovitch and Patrick Chan....

In its race to be the most draconian, antiquated state in the union, Alabama Public Television refused this week to air an episode of the beloved PBS children’s show Arthur because it depicts the title character’s teacher, Mr. Ratburn, marrying another male. “Parents have trusted Alabama Public Television for more than 50 years to provide children’s programs that entertain, educate, and inspire,” Mike McKenzie, a spokesperson for APT, said in a statement. “Parents trust that their children can watch APT without their supervision. We...

Get ready to cry. A middle school choir teacher was surprised by his students with a performance at his wedding’s rehearsal brunch. Christopher Landis was preparing to marry his fiancé Joe Michienzie when he got quite the surprise, according to the Patriot Ledger. Two parents of Landis’ students organized four Sunday rehearsals with the help of 50 kids and their parents. They then got all of the kids on a bus and drove 30 miles to appear at Landis’ wedding rehearsal. Said Joy...

Back in February, we shared with you the news that AJ, who appeared on an episode of the revived Queer Eye show, got engaged to his long-time boyfriend. Now, we’re happy to share with you the fact that AJ is now married! If you don’t know, AJ appeared on Netflix’s Queer Eye as a man who, while having a boyfriend for several years, was not out to his family. By the end of the episode titled “To Gay or Not Too Gay,”...

"This case is really about the right of all Americans to speak in accordance with their beliefs." A pair of Arizona artists are suing for the right to refuse to design invitations and artwork for same-sex weddings. Joanna Duka and Breanna Koski, co-owners of art and calligraphy business Brush and Nib Studio, say Phoenix’s inclusive anti-discrimination statute infringes on their First Amendment rights. The duo, represented by the Alliance Defending Freedom, didn’t wait for a same-sex couple to request their work...

Mayor Darcy Byrne has announced that he would like to make same-sex marriages free if Australia decides to legalize them. Darcy Byrne just recently won his mayoral seat with the Inner West Council, a local government council in control of the inner western region of New South Wales in the city of Sydney, Australia. Just days after that win, Cr Byrne in a Facebook Live session made the announcement saying that he will use council resources to help same-sex couples. "We have...

As Olympic diver and hubby Dustin Lance Black jet off for honeymoon Tom Daley has shared new images of his wedding day to Dustin Lance Black in a new video. The Olympic diver tied the knot with the Milk screenwriter in a Devonshire ceremony back in May. The wedding venue was the impressive Bovey Castle Hotel. The hotel is 30 miles from Daley’s home city of Plymouth, with the castle dating back to 1907. The happy couple released a few select pics of their...