Ilana Glazer realized she was nonbinary when she was pregnant
This profile is part of Queerty’s 2024 Out For Good series, recognizing public figures who’ve had the courage to come out and make a difference in the past year, in celebration of National Coming Out Day on October 11.Name: Ilana Glazer, 37. Bio: It’s fitting that New Yorker Ilana Glazer—who was born and raised on Long Island—co-starred and co-created Broad City, a sacred text for millennials, and one of the most iconic comedy series set in the Big Apple.It’s been over 10 years since the world was first introduced to the absurd antics of Broad City’s Ilana Wexler and Abbi Abrams, the exaggerated versions of the series’ stars and creators, Glazer and Abbi Jacobson.Subscribe to our newsletter for a refreshing cocktail (or mocktail) of LGBTQ+ entertainment and pop culture, served up with a side of eye-candy.Since the Comedy Central series ended in 2019, Glazer has stayed busy both personally and professionally.
Aside from starring in movies like False Positive and the Apple TV+ series The Afterparty, Glazer married her husband, scientist David Rooklin, in 2017.
The couple had a daughter in July 2021.“We had a quick, casual, quiet little wedding,” Glazer said in June 2017. “We put it together in three weeks.
For us, it was about being married. It felt like a real fucking drug to share our most vulnerable romantic words about each other with our close friends.
