List of same-sex couples

Same-sex couples have existed throughout human history, ranging from historical pederastic and egalitarian-modeled relationships in ancient times to modern-day civil partnerships, registered partnerships, and marriages.

Marriages

 * Hillary and Julie Goodridge
 * Luisa Isabel Alvarez de Toledo, 21st Duchess of Medina Sidonia and Liliana Maria Dahlmann
 * Brent Everett and Steve Pena, gay porn stars (California)
 * Cheryl Jacques and Jennifer Chrisler (Massachusetts)
 * Rosie O'Donnell and Kelli Carpenter, later voided by the California Supreme Court
 * Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon, the first same-sex couple married in San Francisco – later voided by the California Supreme Court. Later remarried in 2008.
 * Christopher McCary and Michael John Sullivan from Anniston, Alabama (the first same-sex couple married in Provincetown, Massachusetts and reported as the first same-sex out-of-state couple married in Massachusetts on May 17, 2004)
 * Armistead Maupin and Christopher Turner
 * Michael Stark and Michael Leshner, first legal same-sex marriage in Canada.
 * Michael Hendricks and René Leboeuf, first legal same-sex marriage in the Canadian province of Quebec.
 * Peter and Murray Corren, activists in the Canadian province of British Columbia
 * Ann-Marie MacDonald and Alisa Palmer, Canadian writers
 * Mark de Solla Price and Vinny Allegrini September 2003 Provincetown, Massachusetts (September 3, 1995, Wilton, CT in a Civil Ceremony)
 * Sam Jensen Page and Bronson Page, an ex-porn star-turned-fitness trainer, and screenwriter
 * Robyn Ochs (author/bisexual rights activist) and Peg Preble on 17 May 2004 in Massachusetts
 * Ron Suresha (author/bisexual rights activist) and Rocco Russo in October 2004 Provincetown, Massachusetts
 * George Takei and Brad Altman
 * Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi

Civil unions and partnerships

 * Axel Axgil and Eigil Axgil – World’s first “Registered Partnership” couple
 * Ben Bradshaw and Neal Dalgleish
 * Hugues Cuénod and Alfred Augustin
 * Alan Duncan and James Dunseath (2008)
 * Melissa Etheridge and Tammy Lynn Michaels
 * Stephen Gately and Andrew Cowles
 * Alan Cumming and Grant Shaffer
 * Darren Hayes and Richard Cullen
 * Elton John and David Furnish
 * Antony Sher and Gregory Doran
 * Dan Butler and Richard Waterhouse
 * Clare Balding and Alice Arnold
 * John Barrowman and Scott Gill
 * Pavel Vítek and Janis Sidovský

Long-term partners

 * Peter Frechette and David Warren
 * Cherry Jones and Sarah Paulson
 * Samuel Kensinger Francis and Bronson Page
 * Heather Matarazzo and Carolyn Murphy
 * Mark Feehily and Kevin McDaid
 * Sara Gilbert and Allison Adler
 * George Michael and Kenny Goss
 * Stephen Fry and Daniel Cohen
 * Alan Bennett and Rupert Thomas
 * Mary Cheney and Heather Poe
 * Larry Kramer and David Webster
 * David Hyde Pierce and Brian Hargrove
 * Richard Chamberlain and Martin Rabbett
 * Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner (since ca 1972)
 * Peter I. Chang and Mitch Cullin
 * Merce Cunningham and John Cage

Famous couples that have separated

 * Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana
 * Lance Bass and Reichen Lehmkuhl
 * Ellen DeGeneres and Anne Heche
 * Melissa Etheridge and Julie Cypher
 * Danny Roberts and Paul Dill
 * Portia de Rossi and Francesca Gregorini
 * Martina Navratilova and Judy Nelson
 * Ian McKellen and Sean Mathias
 * Sandi Toksvig and Alice Arnold
 * Matt Lucas and Kevin McGee(deceased)
 * Amanda Moore and Kate Young

Historical same-sex couples

 * Khnumhotep and Niankhkhnum
 * Lucius Cornelius Sulla and Metrobius
 * Alice B. Toklas and Gertrude Stein
 * Hildegarde and Anna Sosenko
 * Edgar de Evia and Robert Denning
 * Robert Denning and Vincent Fourcade
 * Ladies of Llangollen (Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby)
 * Sylvia Townsend Warner and Valentine Ackland
 * Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky
 * Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears
 * Robert de Niro, Sr. and Robert Duncan
 * Mazo de la Roche and Caroline Clement
 * Dirk Bogarde and Anthony Forwood
 * Edith Hamilton and Doris Fielding Reid
 * Romaine Brooks and Natalie Barney
 * George Nader and Mark Miller
 * Mary Woolley and Jeannette Marks
 * J. Edgar Hoover and Clyde Tolson

List of same-sex couples
 * J. C. Leyendecker and Charles Beach
 * Mary Renault and Julie Mullard
 * William Haines and Jimmie Shields
 * George Edward Kelly and William Weagly
 * Ismail Merchant and James Ivory
 * John Gielgud and Martin Hensler
 * Marguerite Yourcenar and Grace Frick
 * Rosa Bonheur and Natalie Micas
 * Willa Cather and Edith Lewis
 * Edward Carpenter and George Merrill
 * Timothy Findley and Bill Whitehead
 * Janet Flanner and Natalia Danesi Murray
 * Raymond Burr and Robert Benevides
 * Paul Cadmus and Jon Andersson
 * W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman
 * Lou Harrison and William Colvig
 * Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy
 * Charlotte Whitton and Margaret Grier
 * Michelangelo and Tommaso dei Cavalieri
 * Leonardo da Vinci and Giacomo Caprotti
 * John Schlesinger and Michael Childers
 * Samuel Barber and Gian Carlo Menotti
 * James Mossman and Louis Hanson


 * Jack Larson and Jim Bridges
 * Jack Larson and Montgomery Clift
 * Radclyffe Hall and Una Troubridge
 * Noël Coward and Graham Payn
 * Noël Coward and Jack Wilson
 * W. Somerset Maugham and Gerald Haxton
 * W. Somerset Maugham and Alan Searle
 * Francis Poulenc and Pierre Bernac
 * Francis Poulenc and Richard Chanelaire
 * Jean Cocteau and Raymond Radiguet
 * Jean Cocteau and Jean Marais
 * Nigel Hawthorne and Trevor Bentham
 * James Buchanan and William Rufus Devane King
 * Graham Chapman and David Sherlock
 * Alexander the Great and Hephaestion
 * Joe Orton and Kenneth Halliwell.
 * Cary Grant and Randolph Scott
 * Edward II and Piers Gaveston
 * Tennessee Williams and Frankie Merlo
 * James Charles Stuart – VI of Scotland and I of England and George Villiers
 * Walt Whitman and Peter Doyle
 * Lawrence Olivier and Danny Kaye
 * Angelina Weld Grimke and Mamie Burrill
 * Hadrian and Antinous
 * T. E. Lawrence and Dahoum
 * Sergei Diaghilev and Vaslav Nijinsky
 * Rock Hudson and Marc Christian
 * John Treville Latouche and Kenward Elmslie
 * Liberace and Scott Thorson
 * Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud
 * Anthony Perkins and Tab Hunter
 * Susan Sontag and Annie Leibovitz
 * Asopichus and Epaminondas
 * John Maynard Keynes and Duncan Grant
 * Federico García Lorca and Phillip Cummings.
 * Cyrano de Bergerac and Charles Coypeau d'Assoucy
 * James Broughton and Joel Singer
 * Claude Cahun and Suzanne Malherbe
 * Sylvia Beach and Adrienne Monnier
 * Parker Tyler and Charles Boultenhouse
 * Charles Henri Ford and Pavel Tchelitchew

General

 * Famous Same-Sex Couples