'Fire Island' Hunk Conrad Ricamora Marries

"Conrad Ricamora is a married man," reports the Daily Mail. He married his partner, Peter Wesley Jensen in a low-key ceremony in New York's City Hall. It took place a day before Peter's birthday.

The 44-year old actor is currently starring as 'Ninoy Aquino' in the new hit musical "Here Lies Love," and is best-known for his ongoing role as Oliver on "How To Get Away With Murder." Last summer he appeared as Will in "Fire Island," which was recently nominated for an Emmy award for Outstanding Television Movie and Outstanding Writing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie.

Ricamora posted a pic on Instagram of the couple embracing. The couple were casually dressed, with Ricamora in gray pants and a green sweater with a white shirt and Jensen in a navy blue sweater and pants for the ceremony.

He wrote in the post: "Happily hyphenated, introducing the Ricamora-Jensens. Lots of great things happened these past few weeks, but this is the highlight of my life."

The Broadway veteran is currently part of the Filipino cast of the David Byrne-Fat Boy Slim musical that musicalizes the life of Imelda Marcos in the same theater where "Evita" played four decades ago. The difference is that the theater has had an "astonishing architectural transformation" (link|https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/20/theater/here-lies-love-review-david-byrne.html|NY Times>) into a discotheque reminiscent of Studio 54.

Ricamora plays Benigno 'Ninoy' Aquino, a political rival of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos who was assassinated. He had previously played the role in the show's first incarnation at the Public Theater a decade ago. He won a Theatre World Award, and was nominated for a Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Musical.

He recently told Variety that "his involvement in the musical, which retells the life of Filipino first lady Imelda Marcos against the backdrop of the Filipino political history, allowed him to explore his own roots as a Filipino American."

"To see this immense pride come up [in my father] when I'm telling this Filipino story was something that I hadn't experienced from him, and it in turn made me want to learn more about my own history," Ricamora said. "That was a new experience of my identity for me. It healed a part of myself that I didn't expect."

He also said he's fine with only playing gay roles. "A lot of times I feel like when actors are starting out in their careers, they don't want to come out, or don't want to be thought of as a gay actor, because then they're just going to get gay roles. But gay people are so different, and there's so much variety within the characters that exist with the LGBT community that if I played queer characters for the rest of my life, I would be so happy because I would still be able to play a variety of people."

Here are some pics from Ricamora's Instagram: