Via Gothamist, the New York Post reports on what looks to be a prank involving the American University alumni magazine, American Magazine, on two graduates of the D.C. school who later lived together in New York. In the spring edition of the magazine, it was apparently falsely reported that Ross Weil, 29, and Brett Royce, 28 were “life partners” who had been gay married, adding that they were leaders of a fake group called the Gay Rights Brigade. Royce and Weil have now filed a $1.5 million defamation suit against American in Manhattan federal court, claiming the school acted maliciously and with “gross negligence,” since they failed to contact either of them to verify the truth of the report.

If we had known it was this easy to put made up things in alumni newsletters, we would have informed our various schools that we were all leaders of the most popular rock band in Japan with plans to begin training for a NASA mission early next year a long, long time ago. The editor of the Class Notes section of American Magazine told the NY Post that each item that appears there is fact-checked, but this lawsuit suggests otherwise. Did we mention we married royalty?

A lawyer for the plaintiffs claims that the suit has “nothing to do with homophobia,” which is oh, maybe just a little bit hard to swallow considering the $1.5 million price tag the two have placed on having been reported to be gay. Surely no one reads the corrections section of an alumni magazine, and what better way to clear up any confusion about their sexual orientation than to file a splashy lawsuit, right?