How Colman Domingo met his husband is the sweetest gay love story ever

It’s the year of Colman Domingo. He’s been nominated for an Oscar for portraying Black civil rights icon Bayard Rustin. And he’ll be starring in a musical movie about Nat King Cole; he wrote the script.

But when it comes to success, nothing could top the story about how he met his husband of 19 years.

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Now her life is full of love.

On the Graham Norton Show, Domingo told everyone the story – and how it started with a Missed Connections ad.

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It all started at a Walgreens in Berkeley, California , in 2005 when Domingo needed a face mask.

“So I’m walking in, and I see someone walking out, has beautiful hair down to here, lip piercing — beautiful. I see this guy, and we look at each other. I’m like, ‘Oh my God,'” he said.

“And I’m on the phone, and I come outside, and we look at each other, and he’s talking to this young woman, and she seemed to be angry about something.”

Domingo quickly hung up to see if he could grab the stranger’s attention, but it didn’t quite work.

“I get off the phone. They walk off down the street, but he keeps looking back, and I wave, but he just keeps going, and then I’m just dumbfounded, and I end up in a Blockbuster across the street.”

When he came back outside, the sexy stranger was long gone, so he decided to return to the store the next week at the same time. Then he had another idea, he could try to post a Missed Connection ad.

“I wondered if they worked because I would read them on the subway. I go to page two of them. As I’m reading and, I see, ‘Saw you outside of Walgreens. Berkeley.'”

“He placed an ad for me two hours before,” he shared. “I jumped up, I was like, ‘Are you kidding me? That’s me!’ He described me with my faux hawk — it was 2005.”

But what happened after their first date cemented the deal. It was instant magic and 19 years later, it’s still going strong.

Watch the video below to find out what happened after Domingo answered the ad.