--- title: Straight Guy Asks Gay Best Friend to Prom description: A straight guy asked his gay best friend to prom and photo of the promposal is going viral on Twitter canonical: https://time.com/3834370/promposal-straight-guy-asks-gay-best-friend/ author: Olivia B. Waxman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-04-24T15:22:37.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:19:05.956Z og:title: See the Sweet Way a Straight Teen Asked His Gay BFF to Prom og:description: A straight guy asked his gay best friend to prom and photo of the promposal is going viral on Twitter og:url: https://time.com/3834370/promposal-straight-guy-asks-gay-best-friend/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: See the Sweet Way a Straight Teen Asked His Gay BFF to Prom twitter:description: A straight guy asked his gay best friend to prom and photo of the promposal is going viral on Twitter twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # See the Sweet Way a Straight Teen Asked His Gay BFF to Prom  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Apr 24, 2015 3:22 PM UTC  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Apr 24, 2015 3:22 PM UTC The Internet is buzzing about Jacob Lescenski of Las Vegas Desert Oasis High School, who asked his gay best friend and Student Council president Anthony Martinez to prom in front of the whole school. Here is a photo of how he asked, which has racked up thousands of retweets and favorites: Guess who just got asked to prom by [@JacobLescenskii](https://twitter.com/JacobLescenskii?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw) [pic.twitter.com/eDrTRkX7fp](http://t.co/eDrTRkX7fp) — Anthony N. Martínez, MBA, MPA (@AnthonymNV) [April 21, 2015](https://twitter.com/AnthonymNV/status/590582895607164929?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw) ‘Tis the season for “promposals,” in which high schoolers ask each other to prom in elaborate ways, from the massively successful stunts shown on [Jumbotrons](http://time.com/3738713/jumbotron-promposal-basketball-game/) in sports arenas to the massive fails like [fake bomb threats](http://time.com/3833002/fake-bomb-promposal/) that lead to week-long suspensions. (h/t [_Logo_](http://www.newnownext.com/straight-high-schooler-invites-gay-best-friend-to-the-prom/04/2015/)) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3834370/promposal-straight-guy-asks-gay-best-friend/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3834370/promposal-straight-guy-asks-gay-best-friend/"},"headline":"See the Sweet Way a Straight Teen Asked His Gay BFF to Prom","datePublished":"2015-04-24T15:22:37.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:19:05.956Z","description":"A heartwarming 'promposal'","url":"https://time.com/3834370/promposal-straight-guy-asks-gay-best-friend/","keywords":["Newsfeed","society"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3834370/promposal-straight-guy-asks-gay-best-friend/","name":"See the Sweet Way a Straight Teen Asked His Gay BFF to Prom"}}]}] ```