The rumors are trumors: The Jonas Brothers, one of the most beloved boy bands of the mid-aughts, are reuniting, and no one is more ready than Gay Twitter™.
Midnight ET #Sucker https://t.co/6T2tt2bPhu pic.twitter.com/9puT4D9Mji
— Jonas Brothers (@jonasbrothers) February 28, 2019
This Thursday, February 28, Nick, Joe, and Kevin Jonas took to Twitter to announce the release of “Sucker,” a new single, at midnight EST on Friday, March 1. It’s their first new release after a six-year hiatus; their most recent single as a group was 2013’s “Pom Poms.”
Just for you guys pic.twitter.com/IaYohmXMBv
— Jonas Brothers (@jonasbrothers) February 28, 2019
Naturally, the earth-shattering news—and the brothers’ colorful outfits on the single’s cover art—had Twitter users talking:
a new jonas brothers song named… sucker? you've caught my gay attention pic.twitter.com/xAVbTNiBLi
— gabe bergado (@gabebergado) February 28, 2019
i really want nick's pants https://t.co/aIMYJyiF9l
— Terron Moore (@Terr) February 28, 2019
Jonas Brothers: Sucker
Me, a gay: Joblo for the Jobros pic.twitter.com/P9cC6iGslr
— Caribeño (@CaribenoPali) February 28, 2019
Gays: we want underground queers to perform at Pride, not straight commercial pop acts who're just milking the LGBTQ community.
Also gays: OMG NICK JONAS IN PINK TROUSERS CHOKE MEpic.twitter.com/J7PDZKmmXW
— Stewart Who? (@DJstewartwho) February 28, 2019
While none of the JoBros openly identify as LGBTQ (and they’re all spoken for, including fan-fave hottie Nick, who recently married Bollywood star Priyanka Chopra), they’ve showed up for the queer community in the past. Nick once said at OutFest Film Festival that he learned to support gay people at the age of 8 and thanked his father, a pastor, for being open-minded.
Some particularly #shook Twitter gays even posited a theory that their tween-hood obsessions with the brothers Jonas actually made them gay:
a lot has changed since the jonas brothers were last around. for instance, i think a lot of us have realized we're gay and we're more attracted to joe's future wife sophie turner than we are to him
— meg | shadowhunter mode (@true_lightwood) February 28, 2019
every jonas brothers fan who wanted to “marry” joe or nick is now gay
— (@karolinaswitch) January 16, 2018
now that i think.. the jonas brothers probably made me gay
— conor power (@conzo_99) February 28, 2019
“The Jonas Brothers made me gay”
— yung lean (@LeAnnCConner) January 30, 2018
No comment on the above (though this writer feels obligated to note that her childhood bedroom was once covered in Nick Jonas posters from Seventeen and Tiger Beat, and she’s now very queer.) Just remember, kids:
It’s okay to be white.
It’s okay to be black.
It’s okay to be Asian.
It’s okay to be Hispanic.
It’s okay to be female.
It’s okay to be male.
It’s okay to be gay.
It’s okay to be straight.
It’s okay to be YOU.But it's NEVER okay to dislike the Jonas Brothers.
— Relatable Riley WDW (@gottasweetlife) January 17, 2018
Look out for “Sucker” at midnight.
