When Andy Cohen told his son that Kevin Sobieski was his boyfriend, the response was everything the gay dad had hoped for.

Ben was already fond of Kevin — and happy his father had found someone to love.

“You’ve wanted a boyfriend, and now you have one,” the seven-year-old said, according to Cohen’s recollection.

Cohen shared the conversation during an appearance on Carlos King’s Reality with the King podcast, explaining how he approached telling Ben and his four-year-old daughter, Lucy, about the relationship.

Getting to Know Kevin First

The couple had been dating for eight months before explaining to the children that they were boyfriends.

That did not mean Kevin was a stranger to them.

“I really let them fall in love with him, and they did before I ever said anything,” Cohen explained.

As the podcast transcript records, Cohen told Ben first.

His son responded by telling him how much he and Lucy loved Kevin, before acknowledging that his dad loved him too.

For Cohen, the conversation was deeply reassuring.

He described it as everything he would have wanted it to be.

Ben Had Already Tried Matchmaking

Finding his father a boyfriend was apparently something Ben had considered before Kevin entered the picture.

Cohen recalled his son asking over the preceding few years why he did not have one.

He would explain that he had not met the right man.

Ben had suggestions, including Cohen’s longtime friend, singer John Mayer.

When that idea went nowhere, he also proposed his dad’s best friend, Bruce.

Cohen had to explain that Bruce was married.

The exchange adds a funny, affectionate detail to the story: a child who wanted his father to find companionship and was perfectly willing to help with the search.

A Calm, Confident Kind of Love

Cohen, 58, also reflected on what makes his relationship with Sobieski feel different.

He described a mature love shaped by fatherhood, greater self-knowledge and feeling more settled in his life.

“It’s very centered, it’s very calm and I’m very sure of it,” he said.

The couple met at a Fourth of July party in the Hamptons in 2025 and kept their relationship private for nearly a year before Cohen discussed it publicly in June 2026.

His separate comments at Bravo Fan Fest on October 24, covered by Attitude, offered another warm update about watching his children’s relationship with Kevin develop.

But the podcast conversation supplies the most touching detail: Ben’s simple happiness that his dad had found the boyfriend he wanted.

For parents navigating dating and family life, that kind of acceptance can mean an enormous amount.

Andy found someone he loves, and his children had already found someone they loved having around.

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David Furnish celebrated his birthday in Venice with plenty of glamour, but one of the evening’s loveliest moments belonged to his sons.

Zachary and Elijah, the children he shares with husband Elton John, wheeled in an enormous cake covered in lit candles for their dad.

Furnish turned 64 on October 25.

Party footage shared by friends, including Patrick Cox and David Burtka, and reshared on Furnish’s Instagram Stories shows the boys bringing the cake into the room and standing beside him.

A Family Moment in Venice

The celebration’s social posts show formally dressed guests, long candlelit tables and a birthday dinner menu.

One of the posts reshared by Furnish tags Airelles Venice.

Elton also appears at the piano in footage shared by Cox, while his own birthday tribute on Instagram celebrates his husband.

The scene with the cake is especially warm: two brothers taking part in their father’s celebration, with the birthday boy beside them.

The setting may be grand, but that particular family ritual will feel familiar to plenty of readers.

The Life They Have Built Together

Elton and David began their relationship in 1993, entered a civil partnership in 2005 and married on December 21, 2014.

ABC News’s reporting on their wedding records a couple already more than two decades into their relationship, with both boys part of their family.

Zachary was born in December 2010, followed by Elijah in January 2013.

They are now 15 and 13, respectively, making the birthday footage another glimpse of how much their family has grown.

For gay readers who remember the couple’s civil partnership and wedding, seeing their sons take on birthday-cake duties adds a particularly touching sense of time passing.

A Legacy of Fatherhood

The moment also connects with something Furnish said publicly earlier this month.

Accepting an award at the October 7 Attitude Awards, he reflected on his relationship, activism and the future he and Elton want for their children.

According to Attitude’s account of his speech, Furnish said: “If we’re remembered for anything… it’ll be for being great fathers.”

His professional and charitable work remains substantial: the Elton John AIDS Foundation lists him as its chair, alongside a career in filmmaking and entertainment.

But the birthday footage offers a more personal view of that life.

Two sons, a cake, and their dad celebrating another year with the people around him.

Happy belated birthday, David.

📷 @thepatrickcox / @dbelicious / @davidfurnish, via Instagram posts and Stories.

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Before Troye Sivan became a global pop star, singing was one of the things that made him feel vulnerable at school.

Other boys mocked him for sounding like a girl, and compulsory sport brought another kind of anxiety: being watched while struggling to do something they seemed to expect of him.

In a new interview for A View From A Bridge, published October 22, the gay singer recalls a teacher whose response to that fear stayed with him.

A Different Way to Take Part

Sivan describes a school swimming carnival where participation was compulsory.

Already uncomfortable in the pool, he was acutely aware that boys who had teased him about his singing were watching.

When another carnival approached the following year, he went to a teacher and told her he really did not want to swim.

She offered an alternative: he could sit out the swimming if he sang the national anthem at the event.

He accepted, performed, and heard the school applaud.

As PinkNews reports, Sivan now sees the exchange as an example of leadership that recognizes and celebrates someone’s differences.

Being Seen for Himself

The significance was larger than avoiding a race.

Looking back, Sivan says the teacher recognized “a more real version of myself,” something he was still afraid to embrace.

His account connects the experience to a complicated relationship with masculinity and the pressure he felt to fit in with other boys.

For many gay men, the setting will be familiar even if the details differ: a sports field, a swimming pool, a classroom, or any place where being different felt like being exposed.

The teacher’s decision gave Sivan a way to participate through an ability he already loved.

It made room for him within the event, rather than requiring him to succeed on the same terms as everyone else.

The Small Gestures That Last

In the episode transcript, Sivan reflects on how an apparently ordinary decision for a teacher can carry enormous meaning for a child.

He remembers the gesture as permission to be celebrated for his own strengths.

He also connects it to the support he has received from women throughout his life.

The story offers a tender glimpse of the child behind the performer: someone who needed encouragement while learning how to feel comfortable being himself.

Long before the larger stages, there was a school event, a song, and an adult willing to see what he could bring to it.

📷 @troyesivan

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