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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 earn help with a ethics she was playing. Their meeting was love at first sight, Tomlin said.
"A friend brought her to my hotel room, and I tell you, in two minutes, I fell in love
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Ashlyn Harris &#; Sophia Bush
Longtime friends Ashlyn Harris and Sophia Bush started internet dating in fall after they both filed for divorce from their respective partners.
In a essay for Glamour, in which she came out as queer, Bush talked about bonding with Harris over issues in their relationships. &#;I didn’t expect to find cherish in this support system,&#; Bush wrote. &#;I don’t know how else to say it other than: I didn’t see it until I saw it.&#;
Harris and Bush have been loud and proud about their love ever since.
Jessica Betts &#; Niecy Nash-Betts
Niecy Nash surprised her fans when she married singer-songwriter Jessica Betts in But the Claws star wouldn&#;t describe her marriage as a &#;coming out of anywhere,&#; but a &#;going into&#; herself situation, she told People.
&#;I was not suppressing my sexuality my whole life,&#; she said to the media outlet after the wedding. &#;I love who I adore. At one point in my life, I married twice [Don Nash, Jay Tucker] and I adore those people. And today I love this person. I&#;ve done everything I wanted to do on my own terms and my o
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Love is love! Sarah Paulson and Holland Taylor, Elton John and David Furnish, and more famous queer 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 have been going strong ever since. In January , Paulson opened up about how her relationship with the Two and a Half Men alum began. "We met a very, very prolonged time ago," Paulson said on Watch What Happens Live 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 company that she was functional with, and we were both doing a PSA for it. We sort of breezed by one another and started obeying each other on Twitter." Since taking her partnership with Taylor public, Paulson has been candid about her "unconventional" personal animation with the
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Valentino also married costume artist Natacha Rambova in , at a time when his career was starting to take off and the roles he played were seen as less typically masculine, such as in the film “Monsieur Beaucaire” in His marriage to Rambova ended in , which left some speculating that the marriages of the “pink powder puff” (a nickname Valentino acquired after playing effeminate roles on screen) were coverups to keep the sex symbol’s reputation intact.
Identifying how many Hollywood couples tied the knot to cloak their sexuality is, of course problematic since it’s primarily based on speculation_._
“I think the hardest thing for a historian is to kind of sift through what the rumor [is] and what is actually factual," says Tropiano.
One commonly cited provider for speculation is the memoir of Scotty Bowers, Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars. Bowers’ account details sexual encounters, same-sex attracted and straight, that he claims he both arranged and took part in, beginning in
Bowers wrote that he had been sexually involved with principal actor Cary Gran
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