Bishop O.C. Allen & Rashad Burgess Renew Their Vows After 20 Years Of Marriage

Bishop O.C. Allen & Husband Rashad Burgess Renew Their Vows In Extravagant Ceremony

According to People Magazine, Bishop Oliver Clyde Allen III and husband, Rashad Burgess, renewed their vows over the weekend, celebrating 20 years of marriage.

The two had an extravagant ceremony at The Whitley hotel in Atlanta to honor their vows from a private beach ceremony in 2003 before same sex marriages were even legal.

If you do not know, Bishop Allen is a senior pastor and founder at Vision Cathedral in Atlanta as well as the CEO of iElevate+TV. Burgess is the Vice-President for Advancing Health and Black Equity Gilead Sciences Inc.

 

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Together, both have been pillars for the LGBTQ+ community by opening their church to the community to worship and attend safely as well as free of judgement.

Bishop Allen said in a statement with Today, “When people of color, Black people couldn’t find solace in white LGBTQ spaces, we created our own.”

He continued, “We created our own of everything, whether it was our own fraternities and sororities, our own institutions, our own churches.”

The anniversary celebration has since gone viral on social media, garnering mixed reactions from folks online.