Meet the Real-Life Spouses of These LGBTQ+ Icons

Opposites Attract & Distance Defied

Tom Daley & Dustin Lance Black: Across the Pond

A British Olympic diver and an American Oscar-winning screenwriter. Despite a 20-year age gap and the Atlantic Ocean between them, they made it work.

Their wedding in an English castle was straight out of a Disney movie, and they now share their parenting journey on YouTube.


Sarah Paulson & Holland Taylor: Ideally Suited

When Sarah Paulson tweets about Holland Taylor (who is 32 years her senior), the internet melts. Their romance rekindled via Twitter DMs a decade after they first met. Sarah calls Holland “the most spectacular woman” she has ever seen.


Wanda Sykes & Alex Sykes: French Connection

Wanda spotted Alex on a ferry boat to Fire Island and literally lost her words. The French businesswoman eventually became not just Wanda’s wife, but the mother of their twins. Wanda now cracks jokes about the cultural differences in her stand-up, but behind every joke is immense adoration.

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