Colman Domingo Found His Husband Through Craigslist’s Missed Connections

Jan. 23 2024, Updated 4:08 p.m. ET

Like many other folks, famous or another way, Oscar-nominated Rustin actor Colman Domingo discovered his now-husband thru an app.

But the actor and his partner didn’t connect on Tinder or Grindr or another online-dating platform. Instead, he and hubby Raúl have Craiglist to thank for their romance.

And Colman — who’s now a celeb of the TV presentations Euphoria and Fear the Walking Dead and the new biopic film Rustin — is aware of how lucky he and Raúl had been to find each different.

“This is a great tale,” he instructed GQ for a February 2021 function.

Read on for the main points!

Colman Domingo and husband Raúl first laid eyes on every other in a Walgreens.

As Colman advised GQ, he and Raúl first crossed paths at a Walgreens drug retailer in Berkeley, Calif., in 2005.

Colman, who was a suffering actor at the time, used to be looking for a Queen Helene dust mask and speaking to a pal on his Motorola Razr when he noticed Raúl, his long hair, his lip piercing, and “those eyes.”

But Raúl’s good friend was rushing him out of the store on the time. They had been running past due to a celebration once you have misplaced, they usually had handiest stopped at the Walgreens to get a chocolate bar as an apology present.

Both males have been shook by the encounter, to say the least. Raúl, his thoughts still on Colman, guzzled Chardonnay on the party. Colman, similarly dazzled, wandered round an area Blockbuster, nonetheless pondering about the stranger he saw. “I simply felt one thing,” the actor told GQ.

A Missed Connections put up brought the two males in combination.

The following day, Raúl posted a Missed Connections message on Craiglist, writing, “I noticed you out of doors of Walgreens in Berkeley…”

And just by happenstance, Colman noticed Raúl’s message a couple of days later as he searched Craigslist for a used iPod Touch. “I literally jumped out of my chair once I noticed the put up,” he stated.

So Colman wrote again: “To the sweet angel with probably the most arresting eyes…”

Colman and Raúl went on a date in San Francisco and spent the night together, and when Colman concept his new beau was once asleep, he leaned over and whispered, “I believe I really like you.”

Nine years after that, the couple invited 25 other folks to what the visitors concept was a space birthday party. But as a substitute, Colman and Raúl greeted each and every attendee with the same 4 phrases: “Welcome to our wedding ceremony.”

Now they’re collaborators on screen, too.

Colman and Raúl co-wrote the 2022 quick film New Moon. Described as “an imaginative surrealist journey of young Jay Jay and his mom Edie as their inner-city goals are illuminated by means of the new moon in a backyard in West Philadelphia,” the short is customized from Colman’s one-man play A Boy and His Soul.

Raúl additionally joined Colman in executive-producing the 2022 documentary When My Sleeping Dragon Woke and his husband’s 2023 AMC docuseries You Are Here. Plus, Raúl exec-produced the 2023 drama movie Sing Sing, in which Colman stars. And the 2 Domingos are manufacturers of the 2024 comedy-horror movie It’s What’s Inside, which options Colman’s Fear the Walking Dead costar Alycia Debnam-Carey.

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