Both Callie Torres (played by Sara
Ramirez) and Arizona Robbins (Jessica Capshaw) will wear white gowns
when they marry on the May 5 episode of the ABC medical drama Grey's
Anatomy.
Photos released by the network this
week show both women looking beautiful in white as they tie the knot
during an outdoor ceremony. (Visit
lesbian entertainment website AfterEllen.com for more photos.)
The episode will also include a
Catholic storyline.
“Callie was raised Catholic and she
loves her church and she loves her God, and that's OK,” Capshaw
told AfterEllen.com.
“Arizona in the beginning of the
episode has been an empowered woman who knows exactly who she is and
has known all her life.” Ramirez said. “Callie has been on a
different journey; she's investigating it and experiencing it and
figuring it out as she goes, especially with her parents who are very
Catholic – her mother in particular.”
“Callie starts to understand and
embrace the notion that God is everywhere and that you don't have to
be in a church to share God's presence of love and acceptance and to
have a union with someone and a wedding and ceremony that means
everything to you,” Ramirez added.
Earlier this month, Grey's
Anatomy creator Shonda Rhimes took to Twitter to defend the
storyline.
Grey's Anatomy is not the first
ABC drama to feature the wedding of a gay couple. In 2008, Kevin
Walker (Matthew Rhys) married his boyfriend Scotty Wandell (Luke
MacFarlane) on the network's Sunday night drama Brothers &
Sisters.
In both cases, the shows are set in
states where gay marriage is not legal. Grey's Anatomy's
Washington and Brothers & Sisters' California recognize
gay and lesbian couples with domestic partnerships.