Joel Kim Booster just proposed to his “vacation boyfriend.” He said yes.

Writer and comedian Joel Kim Booster, best known for his gay take on Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, proposed to his “vacation boyfriend” over Labor Day weekend and he said yes.

The pair met shortly after the pandemic in Puerto Vallarta, where they enjoyed a no-strings hook-up that neither man was prepared to pursue into romance, Booster says — until they did.

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The guest list included some controversial guests.

The Industry co-star, 36, popped the question along with a boxed gold band off the coast of Jeju Island, South Korea, Booster’s ancestral home. His soon-to-be husband, video game producer John-Michael Sudsina, agreed to the proposal.

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The LTR wasn’t inevitable, in Booster’s telling. Neither man professed interest in the other beyond the pleasures of a weekend hook-up.

“We both had very much the vibe of like, ‘We know how these weekends work,'” Booster told Jesse Tyler Ferguson on his podcast Dinner’s on Me.  “‘You don’t have to continue to talk to me. You can find your next conquest. I’m not going to glom onto you. You’re not going to glom onto me.’ And he was very, again, like, you know, ‘This is not going to be a relationship.’ And I said, ‘That’s fine.’ Meanwhile, I’m talking about him on every podcast that I go on.”

Booster’s Q jumped in 2022 with the release of Fire Island, his retelling of Austen’s satiric and affecting critique of social status in 19th century England’s upper classes, now transported to the iconic gay summer enclave. He’s written and produced for Big Mouth and The Other Two, and appeared in Shrill, Search Party and Sunnyside.

Sudsina is a principal creative producer for Valorant and League of Legends from video game developer and publisher Riots Games, based in Los Angeles.

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While Booster is looking forward to the nuptials — a date has yet to be announced — he’s contending with at least one family member who requires special handling: his mom.

“She changes the subject a little bit,” Booster said in his Ferguson interview. “I think she loves him, and loves that I’m happy, and I think like, the Republican conservative in her is like, ‘Maybe that’s a step too far.’ It’s like, I don’t know if she would be at our wedding or not. And again, I don’t need her to, and it doesn’t hurt me.”

For now, Booster is basking in engagement bliss.

“Very much in love. Very happy,” he posted to Insta about his fiancé. “No matter where I am, he’s my home.”  

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