Setenio Borges, a regional trainer at Browns Shoes, and Alex Illest, a Canadian correspondent for the Equality and Human Rights Council of Scotland, met online in 2019. They were engaged on a trip to Quebec City six months later just two days before the first Covid-19 lockdown and tied the knot in an intimate all-black, ’til death–themed celebration in early October.
Alex: I had noticed Setenio at clubs in the city and we have some mutual acquaintances. In 2019, he caught my eye on a dating app for scruffy men and I couldn’t help but reach out.
Setenio: I knew of Alex through social media and I’d seen him on MTV Canada’s