Hollywood’s gay power couples
love is love Sarah Paulson And HollandTaylor, Elton-John And David Furnishand other famous queer couples have lived out their fairytale romances in public.
The American Horror Story The actress was first linked to Taylor in 2015 and the pair have been on good terms ever since. In January 2019, Paulson opened up about their relationship Two and a half men alum began.
“We met each other a long, long time ago,” Paulson said See what’s happening live with Andy Cohen, joked that Taylor slipped into her DMs. “I was dating someone else … and then something like a Twitter thing happened. We did something at Martha Plimpton’s home, it was for an organization she worked with and we both did a PSA for it. We kind of got used to each other and started following each other on Twitter.”
Since going public with her relationship with Taylor, Paulson has been open about her “unconventional” personal life with the Emmy-winning actress, who is 32 years her senior.
“I don’t want to be defined by who I share my bed, my home, my soul with,” she said city Country in 2018. “My choices in life have been unconventional, and that’s my business. But I want to live responsibly and honestly, without hiding. It’s complicated because there’s a lot of hate in this world and a lot of good can come from normalizing something for people who don’t see it as normal.”
The Ocean’s Eight The actress added, “There is a level of hope and risk in our relationship. Maybe there’s something brave in it. Perhaps it will encourage others to make bold decisions. What else can I say? We love each other.”
For John and Furnish, who have been together since 1993, it was important to stay individual even as they became such an iconic couple. The couple finally tied the knot in December 2014 after same-sex marriage was legalized in the UK, and share two sons, Zachary and Elijah.
“It’s very important in any relationship that one partner doesn’t lose themselves in the other, and that’s very easy when you’re dating a celebrity,” Furnish said observer in 2001. “They get so much attention anyway and so much deference that it would be very easy to just become their significant other. I had my own career, my own identity. The worst thing I could do was sacrifice that.”
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