Love is a many-splendored thing, especially when you’re gawking at it from the outside. In this column, we’ll be examining the celebrity couples that give us hope for our own romantic futures and trying to learn what we can from their well-documented bonds.
God, I love love. Okay, that’s not always true: I’m not, for example, particularly heart-eye-emoji about the endless engagement posts on Instagram from girls who ignored me in high school, which always seem to be captioned “Can’t believe I get to marry my best friend!” (Side note: How are all these ladies engaged to real estate developers named Matt? Does the University of Pennsylvania just mass-produce these men?) When young, hot, infinitely-cooler-than-me Euphoria stars are the ones doing the loving, though, I have no choice but to stan, and that’s the case with actors Hunter Schafer and Dominic Fike, who appeared to confirm their offscreen relationship in February with a kiss pic.
As Schafer and Fike’s relationship appears to be relatively new, there isn’t a ton of material to squee over just yet (although if you need an exhaustive timeline of their nascent love, the internet provideth). Thus, I’ve had to focus the bulk of my Schafer-Fike obsession on little moments, like this Daily Mail shot of them holding hands.
At 23 and 26, respectively, Schafer and Fike may be a bit older than their Euphoria counterparts, but there’s still a hint of high-school glamour to their romance. Imagine, essentially, if the head cheerleader was actually nice and well-dressed, and she started dating the quarterback, who was sweet and had good style and didn’t perpetuate a culture of sports-based toxic masculinity. Maybe it’s reductive to see them in these terms, but wouldn’t we all have had easier high school experiences with lovers like these making out in the hallways?
I wish we lived in an era where pop-culture imagery of trans women like Schafer being publicly dated, flirted with, and adored (by cis men, no less) abounded, but sadly, that’s not yet the truth. In January, Laverne Cox opened up about the stigma that many men who date trans women face. “A lot of people don’t see trans women as women, and so the men who are attracted to women, people think they’re gay,” she said. “People just don’t understand it, and it’s really sad.”
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