From Kristen Stewart and Dylan Meyer to Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka, celebrate 36 of Hollywood’s most endearing LGBTQIA+ love stories this Valentine’s Day.
Love is love—just ask famous queer couples.
In honor of Valentine’s Day, we’re celebrating Hollywood’s most endearing LGBTQIA+ love stories. From longtime pairs like Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka and Elton John and David Furnish, to newer romances like the ones that blossomed between Kristen Stewart and Dylan Meyer and Ben Platt and Noah Galvin, it’s obvious these stars have found their soulmates.
Take, for instance, after Niecy Nash Betts. After announcing her marriage to Jessica Betts in August 2020, Nash Betts perfectly described how—for her and many other people who identify as LGBTQIA+—love and attraction are about so much more than gender identity.
“[My marriage] has absolutely nothing to do with gender and it has everything to do with her soul,” the Claws actress, who was previously married to Don Nash and Jay Tucker, told People at the time. “She is the most beautiful soul I have ever met in my life.”
“I was not suppressing my sexuality my whole life,” she added. “I love who I love. At one point in my life, I married twice and I love those people. And today I love this person. I’ve done everything I wanted to do on my own terms and my own way. So, my choice now in a partner has nothing to do with who I’ve always been. It’s a matter of who I am in this moment.”
Harris and Burtka married in 2014 in Italy and have been together for a whopping 20 years. The longtime couple share 13-year-old twins Harper and Gideon.
The Reno 911 actress and musician met after Betts landed a small role on Nash’s TNT comedy Claws. After keeping their romance private for several years, the couple announced they were married in August 2020.
They’ve gone on to share countless adorable date nights on the red carpet and even posed topless together for Essence, making them the first same-sex couple to grace the cover of the magazine.
The actors’ romantic relationship began in 2015, but they didn’t go public with their romance until the following year. Now, they are award show mainstays always supporting each other in their professional endeavor.
Bass and Turchin have been ‘N SYNC since they got together in 2011. The couple wed in 2014 in Los Angeles and celebrated a decade together by welcoming twins Violet and Alexander in 2021.
This couple proves opposites really do attract. Together since the ’90s, LeBar runs a Wyoming ranch while RuPaul is busy winning Emmys as the longtime host of his reality competition series RuPaul’s Drag Race. The pair secretly wed in 2017.
The Oscar-nominated actress announced in 2021 that she and her screenwriter partner got engaged after two years of dating.
“We’re marrying, we’re totally gonna do it,” Stewart said on The Howard Stern Show. “I wanted to be proposed to, so I think I very distinctly carved out what I wanted and she nailed it. We’re marrying, it’s happening.”
