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7 Famous Married Gay Couples and How They Made it to the Altar
Your love is its control inspiration, but if you’re looking for some celebrated married gay couples to get enthusiastic about - look no further. We scoured the web for tales of same-sex couples who made their way to the altar. Some of these couples had been together for decades before they married, while others were in newer relationships. Read on to find out more about famous married gay couples who took their vow to each other general and official.
Our picks: 7 Famous Married Gay Couples and How They Made it to the Altar
Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi
Talk show host extraordinaire Ellen DeGeneres married her Australian bride, actress Portia de Rossi, in August after being together since On their ninth anniversary last year, Ellen posted a wedding pic on Instagram and said, “Being her wife is the greatest thing I am.” In an interview with People she gushed, “I can't imagine not creature married. I have my best friend, the person I want to disburse time with more than anybody else in the world."
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Hollywood&#;s Gay Power Couples: Sarah Paulson and Holland Taylor, More
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Hollywood's Same-sex attracted Power Couples: Sarah Paulson and Holland Taylor, More
Love is love! Sarah Paulson and Holland Taylor, Elton John and David Furnish, and more famous gender non-conforming couples have lived out their fairy-tale romances in the public eye. The American Horror Story actress was first linked to Taylor in , and the pair own been going robust ever since. In January , Paulson opened up about how her bond with the Two and a Half Men alum began. "We met a very, very distant time ago," Paulson said on See What Happens Stay With Andy Cohen, joking that Taylor slid into her DMs. "I was with someone else and then there was, like, a Twitter thing that happened. We were doing a thing at Martha Plimpton's house, it was for an corporation that she was working with, and we were both doing a PSA for it. We sort of breezed by one another and started monitoring each other on Twitter." Since taking her relatio
6 famous LGBT+ couples from British history
From the long-rumoured romance of King Edward II and Piers Gaveston to the affair between Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas, Britain has a rich and rocky history of famous queer couples.
1. Edward II and Piers Gaveston
Edward II had a tumultuous reign marked by bloody battles, bitter revolts and his possess murder in He’s also remembered for his relationship with nobleman Piers Gaveston, who was at the very least his court favourite and very possibly his lover.
His fixation with Gaveston rubbed many other nobles the wrong way. Gaveston’s arrogant conduct didn’t help and, according to one contemporary account, his audacious victory in a chivalric tournament ‘roused the earls and barons to still greater hatred of Piers’.
Edward’s continuing devotion to Gaveston contributed to an uprising that culminated in Gaveston entity beheaded by his vengeful enemies. What a medieval source described as the ‘bond of indissoluble love’ between the king and his favourite, has inspired stories, dramatic works, and speculation ever since.
20 of the longest Queer relationships in Hollywood
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- Some LGBTQ+ couples in Hollywood have been together for decades.
- Elton John and David Furnish have been together for 30 years.
- Both Matt Bomer and George Takei came out publicly after years of dating their significant others.
In the pre-Obergefell times, actors, musicians, and TV personalities often risked their careers by coming out as LGBTQ+, hiding their longtime same-sex partners to protect them from public scrutiny.
But in the end, love perseveres.
As we mark Pride month, these 20 famous LGBTQ+ couples show how even under changing societal norms and in the limelight of fame, love always wins.
Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner
In the early '70s, actress Tomlin reached out to writer Wagner to acquire help with a personality she was playing. Their meeting was love at first sight, Tomlin