Jet Magazine Features First Male Couple in Weddings Section
The new issue of Jet magazine features a gay male couple in its Jet Love weddings section, a first for the venerable publication.
The December 10 issue of Jet, which hit newsstands today, highlights the wedding of Ravi Perry, an assistant professor of political pcience at Mississippi State University, and Paris Prince, a licensed real estate broker and compliance officer for the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination. They were married in August at their home in Worcester, Mass.
The biweekly feature, which traditionally showcases straight couples, includes a short bio of the couple and explains how the couple fell in love, GLAAD reports in a press release saluting the magazine, which is aimed at an African-American audience, for featuring the wedding of the two men. Jet featured its first lesbian wedding last year, with the union of Nyema Vernon and Tenika Jackson.
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