Robbie + Allen Are The Gays In 2nd Place For Crate & Barrel’s $100K Dream Wedding
We knew there were plenty of other gays out there hoping to win the top spot in this year’s Crate & Barrel’s $100k dream wedding contest. And just like Chad and Matt, current gay frontrunners Robbie and Allen — who are in second place over all, behind straight couple Erin & Cory — want your vote.
“Allen and I are both facilitators at the LA Gay & Lesbian Center and volunteer our time with a number of different organizations,” they write to us. “It was while we were facilitating, volunteering, and trying to plan our own wedding that we decided to take a stand and become a face for marriage equality. Our current initiative is to campaign to become the first same-sex couple to win a national wedding contest. This is not about winning a dream wedding but rather winning over the hearts and minds of the American people.”
Which is why they launched LoveAtFirstWink.com (a nod to how they met: by winking at each other on a dating site), claiming “a vote for us is a vote for marriage equality.” Well, that might be a stretch, but we’re rolling with it! And with Robbie and Allen already in second place, and about 700 votes from overtaking the top spot, they might be your best hope to see a gay couple win C&B’s little contest. So vote for them, because while they’re already ahead of other gay couples, they’re still the underdogs.
As always: If you win gentlemen, Queerty expects an invite.
Get help bitter queens. I wish instead of our joyous, young youth taking their own lives some of the bitter, jaded, self hating, internalized homophobic trolls would consider a way out.
Congrats to this happy couple. The bitter trolls are angry their nasty vile fug selves couldn’t find love or lust. Being lonesome makes people say and do all kinds of bitter things, but hopefully in the case of these bitter people they’ll finally leave our planet.
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They are adorable! Good for them. Just posted on my facebook so my friends can vote too. Good luck guys, hope it puts the spotlight on how beautiful love can be, regardless of who it is. And I too love how this story is making the bigots heads spin (for proof, scroll up)
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To those voting, thank you so much! To those making negative comments, you’re entitled to your opinion, however, I don’t understand the hatred towards “your own peeps”. We are working hard to represent the LGBT community. If we won, we’d be the first same-sex couple to ever win a national wedding contest. The media this would create for marriage equality is invaluable. The GLBT Expo this past weekend in NYC even gave us a free booth to promote our cause. Again, THANK YOU to those that voted and THANK YOU to QUEERTY for picking up our story!
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The article said that the vote for marriage equality is a stretch. If you look at the contest rules, this is not a “free” wedding. Robbie and Allen would actually have to pay more for this wedding then they were planning to spend. As a friend of theirs, I know that they wanted to take a stand for marriage equality, and they believe that spending more on their wedding is worth it.
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I am appalled! I am a proud gay woman, and I am all for equal rights for everyone, but I can’t believe these guys would enter a contest that is not important to them just to prove a point! You say in the article that they don’t care about winning the wedding. They must be very selfish people to take the chance of a dream wedding away from someone who wants and needs it. They should remove themselves from the competition because it is not the right forum to push their agenda! I implore everyone to vote with their hearts and pick someone who really needs and wants their dream wedding. Their are some good stories there. My favorites are one about the couple who postponed two wedding due to a cancer battle and the one with the single mom, the autistic boy and the veteran.
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Gay or not, I still find them obnoxious and irritating and self-serving.