Joel Kim Booster & Zane Phillips Want to Be Part of a 'Quad Squad' & We'd Like to See It
“I’m so into quads right now!” – a character from Riverdale, probably.
On Saturday, October 21, Joel Kim Booster was honored by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) with a Visibility Award during the organization’s 2023 San Francisco Bay Area dinner event. His Fire Island costar, Zane Phillips, delivered a speech to introduce Booster to the stage.
After receiving the Visibility Award, Booster shared a kiss with Phillips on stage. Booster then shared a picture of their kiss via Instagram and wrote in the caption:
“Honored to be this year’s [Human Rights Campaign] Visibility Award recipient. Doing my best at all times to use my modest platform to make all gay guys seem like sex-crazed drug addicts and I personally think I’m killing it. Thank you again to [Zane Phillips] for introducing me, and for kissing me on the mouth in front of his boyfriend. Hard launching my campaign to ruin the relationship from the inside.”
Screengrab via Instagram (@ihatejoelkim)
For context, Booster has been dating game producer John-Michael Kelly for a few years now. In turn, Phillips started dating fellow actor Froy Gutierrez in 2023. But Booster and Phillips sharing a kiss in public is obviously not a problem for a lot of gays – particularly gays with a sense of humor.
“Come on [John-Michael Kelly] let’s get ‘em,” Gutierrez wrote in the comments section. Phillips replied to his boyfriend’s comment with, “Quad squad rights are human rights.” Booster had an even better suggestion in response: “Boyfriend swap!”
We stan and support all of these ideas. Keep that energy going, boys!
