Please check out the comic first before continuing. That is until a fateful night at a bingo hall. But after having their sexuality discovered by their families, both girls are forced to separate, marry traditional husbands, and they never see each other again for nearly 50 years.

Over the course of the next couple weeks, they become best friends, and Elle tries her best to hide her growing romantic feelings for Mari. Elle and Mari happen to meet each other at a church bingo event while they’re with their grandmothers.

They both grew up during the 60s when the concept of lesbian or homosexual love was still criminalized and heavily looked down upon especially by many religious communities. The plot of Bingo Love surrounds the multi-decade love story of two women named Elle and Mari. However, that doesn’t mean I didn’t have some problems with it overall, it just means I think the comic’s ability to bring a new and compelling story to the romance table may outweigh some of its faults. Even for general lovers of queer romance stories, I think this comic has something major to offer to the general narrative surrounding queer romance, especially for older couples. I have to say, for any LGBT and/or African American comic fans out there, I would highly suggest you pick this up. So when it was finally released not too long ago, I knew I had to pick it up and check out the story for myself. I’ve been following the artist of this comic for a while on Instagram and have been keeping up a bit with the hype on this comic for awhile.

Bingo Love by Tee Franklin