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Straight teen asks gay best friend to prom

Promposal

Jacob Lescenski is straight. His best friend, Anthony Martinez, is gay.

Anthony made no secret of wanting a date to the school formal. As a member of student council, he is often responsible to organizing school dances, but is never asked to go.

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Fortunately, his best friend had his back.

“I decided on going to prom alone because my original date idea didn’t work out so well,” Jacob told New Now Next. “Then one night I saw Anthony, who is my best friend, tweeting about wanting a date.”

Jacob quickly went to work to create a special promposal for his friend.

“So, I came up with the poster idea, asked my friend Mia to make it and asked him that next day,” he recalled. “No one knew about it except for me, my friend Jamie, and Mia, who made the poster. It was a giant surprise to everyone, especially Anthony!”

Jacob pulled off an impressive — and now viral — promposal with a large banner that read:

“You’re hella gay, I’m hella str8, but you’re like my brother so be my d8!”

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“I saw this giant poster and assumed it was for another person—until I read ‘You’re hella gay,’” Anthony said.

On Tumblr, Anthony bragged about his prom date:

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“Guess who got asked to prom! BY A STRAIGHT GUY,” he wrote. “He’s my best friend, and a real man given the fact he has the guts to fulfill my gay student council dream of always helping out planning dances, and never getting asked. I couldn’t ask for a better person in my life.”

The friends’ sweet story got the attention of Ellen DeGeneres, who tweeted that the promposal was the “cutest thing” she’d seen all day. We’d have to agree.

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