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00:00I am invited to the cookout.
00:01I know I can only bring the plates and cups and drinks
00:04and things.
00:05Yeah.
00:05Ice.
00:07Hey, everybody.
00:08It's Latrice Royale, and welcome to Scroll Patrol.
00:12We're going to be going down memory lane,
00:14walking through my old photos, and seeing some things that
00:18might be a little sus.
00:21So you know we can't do all this deep diving
00:24without diving into my personal relationship with my husband,
00:28honey.
00:29That's the night we met.
00:30We met at a meet and greet.
00:32Didn't everybody meet their husband at a meet and greet?
00:34I'm the only one?
00:35Oh, OK.
00:36Well, uh, I've invited him back to the hotel to hang out.
00:41We stayed up and just talked the entire night,
00:44getting to know you, bull .
00:47I was intrigued because he was just different.
00:50He was very self-aware.
00:52He was just being an open book because he felt like he knew me.
00:56He knew so much about me, and I knew nothing about him.
00:58But that's why I Googled him in front of him.
01:02We got together in 2012, right?
01:05We dated nine months.
01:07He was in a situation where his lease was going to be up.
01:10That was like, do I get another place for a few months, or do I just come?
01:14Come on, let's just do this thing.
01:16And so he moved down to Florida nine months later.
01:19But marriage was not an option at the time for us.
01:24So it was a thing of like, we're not going to do that.
01:27We're just going to take care of each other, make sure that our ducks are in a row,
01:30in case anything happens.
01:31So we'll do the legal stuff, you know, and make sure those things are taken care of.
01:35That was going to be the extent of what I thought marriage was going to be for us.
01:41Until the Pulse massacre happened in 2016.
01:45We lost a very dear friend during that time, Eddie Sotomayor.
01:49It was just devastating for everyone.
01:53He had a unique insight to our relationship, and he saw the specialness that there was.
02:00That was a wake up call to me.
02:02And now you're going to get me emotional.
02:07That was when I knew that we're not promised tomorrow.
02:11You know, anything could happen in the blink of an eye.
02:15I've been working on marriage equality for years,
02:18making sure that we got it passed in all 50 states.
02:22To make sure that you get out there and vote.
02:25And then when it passed, it was such a moment.
02:28And then I became an ordained minister and started officiating weddings.
02:32And so I'm seeing the love.
02:34I'm bringing the love together, bringing all this joy.
02:37And then I'm just like, well, why am I not?
02:39Why am I not?
02:41And it was Seattle Pride.
02:43And I had left to go on a random errand that he didn't know nothing about.
02:47But I was out actually shopping for an engagement ring.
02:51He did not have a clue because we had said we were not doing this.
02:56But at the end of my show, Lady Chablis and Jujubee was there.
03:00They came out with the rings.
03:02And I got down on one knee and proposed in front of the Wanda being the world.
03:06Because Jujubee, she went live.
03:08And the world saw the proposal before we could even tell his mom or anybody else like that.
03:15Like it was already out.
03:16The viral proposals that went around the world.
03:19September 29th, 2018.
03:23Baby, this wedding was the talk.
03:26And it still is the talk, really, quite frankly.
03:29Like, oh my God, can we just go back to this day?
03:31It just wound up being such a moment.
03:35Baby, the girls, the dolls were at my function.
03:39Manila Mike, Brooklyn.
03:40Like everyone flew in.
03:41We chose Atlanta mainly because it was a Delta hub.
03:45And we knew that everybody could get there direct.
03:49Baby, one flight, get there, get you there, you there.
03:52We had hired the best singers, the best band.
03:56And of course, of course, the food buffet.
03:59Which I didn't even get a chance to partake of, but I heard all about it.
04:03They were like, girl, you had this and this and this.
04:06I was like, for real?
04:07That was the biggest, most expensive dinner party I've ever thrown.
04:11Don't ever get married.
04:15Could you imagine?
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04:22I'm just saying.
04:23And you're here.
04:24I'm here.
04:25Yeah.
04:26I'm here.
04:26You're real.
04:27I've just been right over there the whole time.
04:28Don't talk about me like I'm not here.
04:30You're not the only one on the phone.
04:32I've got some things here, too.
04:33We've been some places.
04:34We've been seeing some things.
04:36I've got some memories, too.
04:37Are they hidden?
04:40This is Brazil.
04:41This is actually one of the first tours Christopher kind of put together.
04:47We did seven cities in Brazil.
04:50Come to Brazil.
04:51And then we did ten cities in the UK.
04:54And then four or five cities in Australia.
04:57It was a world tour like that.
04:58That was wild.
04:59It was wild.
05:00This was our first Hawaii trip.
05:03This is our second trip.
05:04Okay.
05:04Tell them the story about when you lost your engagement.
05:07So this is my now wedding ring that lives on this hand.
05:10But this ring used to live on this hand.
05:12And I got in the cold water of Hawaii.
05:15And it fell off in the ocean.
05:17And I felt it happen.
05:19I saw where it went.
05:20But I could not swim well enough to get to it.
05:24And so it took about eight or nine tries.
05:27But he continued to dive onto the floor of the ocean until he found this ring.
05:33It was all kind of rocks and coral.
05:35It could have been in any kind of crevice and crack.
05:37You know.
05:38Well, we love a crevice and a crack, too.
05:41You know.
05:41Well, like I did, I actually got to put the ring back on on his feet.
05:44Yeah, it was so romantic.
05:45The first, I said first proposal was lovely and as whatever, but this felt like it was the one just
05:52for us.
05:52It felt like, no, really, like this is supposed to be your ring.
05:55This is supposed to be your husband.
05:57This is where you're supposed to be.
05:59This was Vienna.
06:01There's a band there in the middle of the street in Vienna singing Cocaine by Eric Clapton.
06:05So after we passed these people, we were walking back to the hotel or whatever.
06:11And these two girls, I guess they were ladies of the night.
06:17They had never seen anything like my husband.
06:18When I tell you, they were on me like, I don't know.
06:23They would not take no for an answer.
06:25They was trying, hey, come over, like trying to have me.
06:29And I was like, hey, girl.
06:30I was wearing nails at the time.
06:31I was trying to show them I was gay.
06:33I had on fingernails.
06:34I was trying to do everything to let them know.
06:37They did not care.
06:38They did not care.
06:41All of this Hershey chocolate, baby.
06:43They wanted it.
06:44And it was not happening.
06:46But you could have got a good deal.
06:48I probably could have got an in-the-biz discount.
06:52All my hoes is honest.
06:54All my hoes is honest.
06:56Tips for a healthy marriage or relationship.
07:00Well, I'm the lesbian of the two of us, so I definitely believe in the processing and the communication.
07:05Not just being communicative, but being transparent.
07:09Like, you have to be transparent.
07:11Because there's a difference between communicating some things and not all things.
07:16Because if you omit things, then you're not really fully communicating.
07:20And also, ego has no place in a relationship.
07:24There are no big I's and little you's.
07:26But I think being able to balance each other's energy is my number one all-inclusive top five tip.
07:33You have to be able to read and know what your partner needs and how to balance that with what
07:38you need.
07:38We're together a lot, so it's either really itty-bitty living space.
07:43Tiny can find we don't have much room or I don't see him at all for maybe three or six
07:49weeks.
07:49So we have to be okay together and separately. And no matter what line of work you're in or what
07:56your lifestyle is, I think that is just true.
07:59No other person can really complete you. That's just a myth.
08:03Baby, you need to be a complete package on your own.
08:07And then y'all bring your packages together and make a super package.
08:12I love it when our packages come together.
08:15Magic.
08:16Some good old emotional frotting.
08:20I wanted someone I could grow with.
08:22I wanted a partner. I wanted someone who was going to evolve and not only just for themselves but
08:32with me. And it has been nothing short of that. He has shown me and elevated me in my career
08:39to places
08:40that I didn't even see possible because I didn't believe in myself that way. But he did and he saw
08:46it.
08:46Well, that's a little look inside our little love story and I hope you enjoyed it.
08:51You want some of my, um, my cheers?
08:54Oh, I do. I do.
08:58Love is not blind.
08:59Love is not blind.
09:01Because we see each other.
09:03We see each other.
09:06Cheers.