Joel Kim Booster is getting candid about his non-monogamous ― but not polyamorous ― marriage to husband John Michael Sudsina.
Booster spoke to GQ in an interview published last week about his relationship as part of a wider discussion around body image in the LGBTQ+ community. In it, the “Scrubs” and “Fire Island” actor acknowledged he feels “more pressure” regarding his physical appearance “from being gay than I do from being an actor for sure,” adding: “I think the standards are slightly different.”
“But being gay and especially being in a non-monogamous relationship, and so primarily only interacting ... I’m not looking for love outside my relationship,” he said. “We’re not polyamorous and so the sex I’m having outside of my relationship is all recreational at this point.”
“And so when you’re primarily navigating [as someone] not dating, but just hooking up, I think it becomes even more focused on solely what you look like, than the entire package of who you are,” he continued.
Booster and Sudsina, a video game producer, were married in San Francisco in December. The pair began dating in 2021 after meeting in Mexico, where they were each traveling separately with their respective friend groups.
