Is ben plat gay
Being a Jewish 13-year-old is tough. You’re in the throes of middle college, you’re going through puberty and perhaps orthodonture and to top it all off, your b-mitzvah is right around the corner. But if you’re Ben Platt, it turns out that being a Jewish 13-year-old also held one other particularly tough twist: having to come out to your Jewish time school in the most bonkers way possible.
In the latest episode of the “Good Children” podcast, the Jewish Broadway star and singer joined hosts Joe Hegyes and Andrew Muscarella to chat about musical theater, anxiety and whether or not Ben Platt was a good toddler. (The answer, obviously, is yes.) Early on in the conversation, Joe and Andrew, who are both gay and came out later in life, asked Ben what his exposure was like coming out as a 13-year-old. Ben noted that he was fortunate because his parents were accepting, and that growing up in Los Angeles and in the entertainment industry, it wasn’t that big of a deal.
At his Jewish day school, it was a different and significantly weirder story.
“My school benign of handled it in a weird way because I was at a Jewish day school at that point and there was only like 40 kids in my grade
Much like with b-mitzvah parties, a wedding can really fix itself apart with a good theme. Beanie Feldstein and Bonnie-Chance Roberts’ summer camp themed nuptials in 2023 stood out as one of the most charming and coziest celebrity weddings in recent history. Meanwhile, Bel Powley and Douglas Booth’s red and pink wedding at a London plant nursery dripped with chicness.
Now, Jewish actors Ben Platt and Noah Galvin are joining their ranks. The couple were married this past weekend in festivities that were ostensibly “dress to dance” themed, per Vogue. But, in reality, it seems that the wedding weekend’s overarching vibe is more clearly summed up as very gay and very Jewish.
The weekend kicked off with a Shabbat welcome and rehearsal dinner at the Angel Orensanz Foundation on the Lower East Side — a former synagogue which has been restored and converted into an art gallery and performance cosmos. (Fun fact: Sarah Jessica Parker also held her wedding there!) At the event, they both wore navy Thom Browne outfits. Noah was in a suit jacket and pants, while Ben wore a blazer and skirt. “For our Shabbat rehearsal dinner, I wanted to be a bride so I wore a skirt,” Ben told Vogue. They al
The facial hair comes up because it has to. After all, the unofficial rulebook for any Americana artist stipulates somewhere that wherever an acoustic guitar shall go, a full beard must too. And so Ben Platt is all about his furry face, but not just because he’s in full-on folk-roots mode for his third solo album, “Honeymind.”
Considering this particular genre isn’t necessarily a welcoming platform for openly queer musicians (or even close to one), there is a quiet rebelliousness to Platt simply existing in that room — just ask Beyoncé, who shook up the country society just for being a Jet artist releasing her rural-toned “Cowboy Carter,” a nod to her Southern roots. As for Platt, his subtle defiance is front and center on the album’s cover, as he queers a classic vintage car-makeout scene while straddling the lap of his fiancé, Noah Galvin, but it is also embedded in its songs of longing, love and more love, too.
During a recent April afternoon from his place in New York, I spoke with Platt about the reasons he’s especially proud to be an openly queer artist on “Honeymind,” how buying his first home with Galvin inspired one very special song on the album and how he genuine
Ben Platt is engaged
From THAT interview.
Has organism on a TV show affected your dating life?
My digital dating life is already pretty shitty because I look fancy a 12-year-old. Existence on TV just adds another level of difficulty to the dating thing. First of all, I’m gay, and that’s just challenging because gays are naturally a promiscuous collective of people. So there’s the lack of monogamy and then there’s me looking fond of a 12-year-old. And then there’s organism in L.A., where half of the men are closeted and the other half are just dumb. But also gay boys my age are either club kids or they’re in college and they haven’t come out yet and they’re still DL on Grindr. So I attend to date people that are slightly older, but then I get into this situation where they’re just, favor, twink hunters. I’m like, “No, I don’t want to date you, you 45-year-old man.”
I’m seeing two people right now. I'm seeing a 24-year-old and I'm seeing a ... I believe he's like 38. But it's friendly. I'm dating for the first moment ever. I never really did that in New York. So it's absorbing , I'm slightly capitalizing on the truth that I'm on a TV production, to a certain extent. Using my slight fame to be with sexier people than I nor