List of LGBT couples

This article provides a list of current and historical notable lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) couples. Modern LGBT couples use many terms to describe their relationship as "marriage" for LGBT people is legal only in a minority of countries and terms such "gender-neutral marriage," "equal marriage," "civil union", "same-gender marriage" and others do not fully address the complexities of their relationship or the changing legal aspects that are presently occurring.

Marriages
Same-sex marriage is a term for a governmentally, socially, or religiously recognized marriage in which two people of the same sex live together as a family. Proponents of same-sex marriage often use the term "equal marriage" to stress that they seek equality as opposed to special rights; the term "equal marriage" has also been used by feminists to describe any marriage, regardless of the sex of the partners, in which the partners have equal status within the marriage. Opponents argue that equating same-sex and opposite-sex marriage changes the meaning of marriage and its traditions.
 * 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, following Mayor Gavin Newsom's executive order in 2004 (all San Francisco same-sex marriages were later voided by the California Supreme Court when it declared Newsom's unilateral action contravened the state constitution)
 * 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).
 * 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 (Massachusetts).
 * Pierre Fitch and Ralph Woods, Canadian porn stars.
 * Sam Jensen Page and Bronson Page, an ex-porn star-turned-fitness trainer, and screenwriter (respectively)
 * 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.

Civil unions

 * Axel Axgil and Eigil Axgil - World’s first “Registered Partnership” couple
 * Ben Bradshaw and Neal Dalgleish
 * Hugues Cuénod and Alfred Augustin - possibly one of the oldest couple to have a civil union
 * Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi
 * 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
 * Matt Lucas and Kevin McGee
 * Antony Sher and Gregory Doran
 * Clare Balding and Alice Arnold
 * John Barrowman and Scott Gill

Dating

 * Peter Frechette and David Warren.
 * Cherry Jones and Sarah Paulson.
 * Samuel Kensinger Francis and Bronson Page.
 * Mark Feehily and Kevin McDaid.
 * Sara Gilbert and Allison Adler
 * George Michael and Kenny Goss.
 * Armistead Maupin and Terry Anderson.
 * Alan Bennett and Rupert Thomas.
 * Mary Cheney and Heather Poe.
 * Jodie Foster and Cydney Bernard
 * Larry Kramer and David Webster
 * David Hyde Pierce and Brian Hargrove
 * Richard Chamberlain and Martin Rabbett
 * Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner (since ca 1972).
 * George Takei and Brad Altman

Parted couples

 * 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.
 * Sandi Toksvig and Alice Arnold.

Historical

 * Khnumhotep & Niankhkhnum (speculated to be the first recorded same-sex couple in history)
 * 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.
 * 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 Hephaistion
 * 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 Liebovitz
 * Asopichus and Epaminondas
 * John Maynard Keynes and Duncan Grant.
 * Federico Garcia Lorca and Phillip Cummings.
 * Cyrano de Bergerac and Charles Coypeau d'Assoucy

General

 * Famous Same-Sex Couples