“This is Nico Tortorella, one of the stars of Younger.
And this is his partner, Bethany Meyers.
The
pair have been in a queer, polyamorous relationship for 12 years. Nico
identifies as pansexual while Bethany identifies as gay.
On Saturday, the duo postedphotos from their courthouse wedding taken by Victoria Matthews, where, quite frankly, they looked incredible.
I mean, I’ve already printed out this photo, taken it to the framers, and put it in my apartment.
In a piece for them, Condé Nast’s LGBTQ-centered online publication, Nico and Bethany wrote about their wedding and the beautiful thought process behind it.
“the looks are everything we’ve ever dreamed of. genderbending ensembles
designed by our dear friend andrew morrison. timeless androgynous
paraphernalia mimicking romanesque sculpture that fluidly blends
masculine and feminine. in this relationship, we both wear the pants and
the dress. we put on our faces and machinery, finally topping each
other off in crowns. duh, we wore crowns. not for the gag of it all, but
because it feels like something we’ve done in the past, so we had to
keep the tradition alive. in this life’s iteration, this is, in fact,
our royal wedding.”
And on labels, Bethany said, “If you had to label it, Nico and I are in a queer polyamorous relationship”:
“Labels that help people understand, but not labels that define us. Most
think we planned this and one day decided we would be multiple-love kind
of people. We didn’t. It’s just the way our relationship developed over
12 years. We became polyamorous without ever really trying, and we let
each other go so often; I guess we finally realized it’s the reason we
are impenetrable. It’s hard to break something that bends.”
The day was obviously beautiful, but Nico mentioned how there was one regret:
“in hindsight i wish we would have asked [the officiant angel] to use
nonspecific gender titles, but so be it. this husband now had a wife,
and this wife now had a husband. a bride becomes a wife and a groom
becomes a husband, but what does a partner become?”
But it’s obvious from their essay that this was a wonderful wedding full of love, beauty, and promise:
“we’ve been lovers, we are lovers, twin flames and we will forever
be. we both realize that even the ability to share this story is a
privilege we have for a number of reasons. hopefully a piece of love has
jumped from these words to your field. this is our now, shared with
you, and tomorrow is a future for us all.”
Aaaaaand there go my tear ducts.
Congratulations, Nico and Bethany!”
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So special! So progressive! So revolutionary! So…… gender-conforming and straight. So narcissistic. Yawn.
but girls she has SHORT !!!! hair !!! genderbender alert !!
She wore a white dress and he wore pants and a shirt how tf is that gender bending lmao
This is the funniest thing ever HOLY crap
Am I the only one who read this as two non-binary people getting married? Because that would, in fact, mean Bethany is gay. As in a non-binary person attracted to other non-binary people. Like it even made a point in the article that they realized they forgot to tell the officient not to use gendered pronouns but they weren’t really mad about it in the end? Like, I think the person writing this missed that or was doing the cis-author-wont-gender-trans-people-correctly thing on purpose. But that’s what I read from the subtext
Yes. You’re literally the only one who read it that way. Intelligent people read this and see an average straight couple. You read this and see unintelligible gender nonsense.
this is the most heterosexual nonsense iv seen in several minutes
Big Mean Sweaty Dyke 