That David Hogg And Cameron Kasky Prom Pose Pic Was Apparently Just for Laughs

On Monday, David Hogg and Cameron Kasky, two Parkland students who have become leaders in the national gun control movement, stirred the internet’s queer hearts when Kasky released a picture of the two with the caption “Prom 2018.”

Prom 2018 pic.twitter.com/jK5be0WFLn

— Cameron Kasky (@cameron_kasky) April 23, 2018

People automatically began to ship the two students. But in a new report fromTMZ, Hogg’s mother, Rebecca Boldrick, said that her son has another date for the prom, and clarified that the photo was taken as part of a shoot for U2’s RED campaign that happened on Monday.

Kasky’s father, Jeff Kasky, told TMZ that the two love each other very much “but not in a romantic type of way.”

According tosome news outlets, Kasky is openly gay while Hogg is straight.

The Sun-Sentinelreports thatthe Stoneman Douglas prom committee decided to throw an elaborate, over-the-top prom to celebrate this year’s senior class, which willinclude a memorial to those seniors who were killed in the Feb. 14 shooting.