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Love Song

If you want to know what being loved looks like, you need only observe Mary Lambert and her fiancé, Dr. Wyatt Hermansen. There’s a warmth and electricity that crackles between them at every glance that is undeniable, and those who watched them get engaged last November witnessed a true display of devotion.

Queer love has always been interlaced with everything Lambert’s done, so is it any surprise that she’d get her happily ever after? Lambert is best known for bursting onto the scene with the hit song “Same Love,” an LGBTQ+ anthem she wrote along with Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, her second collection of poetry, in 2018, and her second album, in 2019. And she hosts a popular podcast with Hermansen called which led directly to the moment when Hermansen popped the question during the duo’s first joint live recording.

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