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Katherine Hepburn

Iconic Hollywood actress and Academy Award-winning performer in films such as Guess Who&#;s Coming to DinnerThe Lion in Winter, and O

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For many lgbtq+ couples, being able to be together openly and walk down the hallway is a big deal. Marriage equality in the U.S. was legalized just over seven years ago, so it is a major thing for the LGBTQ+ stars to be able to discuss their love stories with their fans and the universal. Mean Girls star Jonathan Bennett loves gushing about his husband, Jaymes Vaughan, as a newlywed. &#;I love how I can be unapologetically myself and I love that he loves me unconditionally for it,&#; he toldPeople in

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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 long time ago," Paulson said on Watch What Happens Reside With Andy Cohen, joking that Taylor slid into her DMs. "I was with someone else and then there was, appreciate , a Twitter thing that happened. We were doing a thing at Martha Plimpton's house, it was for an organization that she was working with, and we were both doing a PSA for it. We sort of breezed by one another and started following each other on Twitter." Since taking her relatio

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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 receive help with a ethics she was playing. Their meeting was love at first sight, Tomlin