Lance Bass Engaged to Michael Turchin [PHOTO]

Lance Bass is engaged to artist Michael Turchin, PEOPLE reported September 1.

Bass took to social media to declare that Turchin had accepted his proposal.

He said YES!! Love this man @michaelturchin https://t.co/lwf8KLflZ8

— Lance Bass (@LanceBass) September 1, 2013

Bass had previously spoken out about wanting to settle down and get married. In 2011, he cited what qualified to him as marriage material. He reflected on what he was looking for in a mate after gay marriage was declared legal in New York.

"I definitely want that. I'm a Southerner. We dream of having the family and the kids, and the parents want grandkids, that's all they care about, give me some grandbabies,” he said.

Drew Pokorny, head writer and co-host of Dirty Pop with Lance Bass on SiriusXM, explained the details of Bass’ proposal. He popped the question while the two were recently vacationing in New Orleans.

“They're so great together. I'm completely thrilled for them," Pokorny said "Lance had his heart set on asking Michael here in New Orleans and celebrated with some of his closest friends from Mississippi and L.A. who came in for the weekend."

The engagement comes at the end of a blockbuster few weeks for Bass. He and other members of N’Sync reunited at the MTV Video Music Awards on August 25. Justin Timberlake, the former lead singer of the boy band, was receiving the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award.