Bravo's reality series Newlyweds:
The First Year returns Sunday. Appearing in season 3 is a Utah
couple with Mormon ties.
Newlyweds follows four couples
through the first year of their marriage. The show's first season
featured a gay male couple, while a lesbian couple were featured on
season 2.
Brandon Liberati and Craig Ramsay live
in California, but Liberati grew up in a Mormon family in Salt Lake
City, Utah.
“Utah is a huge part of my story, of
our story, Liberati told The
Salt Lake Tribune. “And we talk about it in the show.”
“Everyone knows that being gay in
Utah is still quite a struggle, even though marriage is legal now,”
he said. “We really give people outside of Utah a look at the
struggle that the gay community goes through inside the state.”
Liberati said that getting married
changed the way other people viewed the couple: “It was almost like
we started being treated like we were a real couple then.”
The men are also partners in business,
operating Fit +
Phab, which offers beauty, fitness and wellness trainers.