Still think that gay and happy family life - incompatible concepts?
Here are 10 pairs of loving and faithful, whose significant other ... the same gender.
At 7 years
The star of "Sex and the City" Cynthia Nixon met with Christine Marinoni at a stake in New York in 2003. Since then, they live in perfect harmony, raising two children - 15-year-old daughter Samantha and 7-year-old son from his marriage to Cynthia Charles with Professor Danny Mozes, with whom the actress had lived for fifteen years. "I fell in love with Christine as she is, - says the actress. - I would pay attention to her if she were a man? I do not know. Me with it very well. "When asked how the children reacted to the new love of his mother, Cynthia, the answer was that "everything was great." "My son was very young - she recalls. - A daughter, a child nursed godmother gay. "The only obstacle in the path to the idyll - a New York law, which still prohibits the registration of same-sex marriages.
Together: 23 years
TV host Ellen DeGeneres and actress Portia de Rossi
At 6 years
Hardly find a more popular Hollywood couple than these blonde beauties: the winner of 11 "Emmy" and the star of the series "Ally McBeal." Ellen and Portia met at a ceremony channel VH1 in December 2004, and from that time to present them individually is impossible. A wedding in California in 2008 (cover the ceremony dream of many publications, but wedding photos adorned the cover of the magazine People), spouses are exemplary family life and start to think about the children. "If the child will be as beautiful as Brad and Angelina's kids, we will start working on it right now - jokes Ellen. - But seriously, the birth of a child - an important event, which will fill our lives with something special. "
Designer Marc Jacobs and advertising expert Lorenzo Marton
At 2 years
"I am grateful for meeting with him - says the creative director of Louis Vuitton about his acquaintance with Lorenzo. - About this harmony can only dream of. "The pair first appeared together at a reception Costume Institute Gala in New York in May 2008, a few months later announced their engagement. Cover all the fancy dream wedding edition, but ... did not love staged lavish festivities with a long list of star guests. They secretly established their relations on the eve of the New Year on the island of St. Barth. "We had a modest ceremony at the home of one of our friends on the island - shared with the magazine Lorenzo Butt Magazine. - The ceremony was attended by only family members and close friends. "
Singer Beth Ditto and director Freddie Fagului
At 9 years
"Freddie - amazing - speaking of his beloved one, Beth Ditto is serious. - As soon as I find the second such person capable to handle my temper! "Beth met Freddie in college - she had just turned 19 years old and on acquaintance with Karl Lagerfeld is not even dreamed of. Speaking of love today, Beth calls her masculine pronoun ... - Freddy drink hormones and preparing to change sex. The couple be called perfect - they live like a volcano. But ... insisting in an interview that it was "too complicated man for marriage," Beth still loves to dream about a wedding dress. "I want the same as that of Carrie in the sequel" Sex and the City "- in jest or in earnest she said. - It seems traditional, but my style "
Musician Elton John and filmmaker David Furnish
At 17 years old
"David - the most honest man I know - keeps repeating Elton John. - Meeting with them - the best thing that has happened in my life. "From designer and filmmaker musician met at a reception in 1993. Elton helped elect to overcome alcohol addiction, from which he suffered in the 90s. December 21, 2005-th - as soon as the British were allowed same-sex marriages - the lovers were married in the City Hall in Windsor. The ceremony was called the press as "one of the most expensive" and called all the friends of star couples, including David and Victoria Beckham. Until last year, the spouses have not thought about their own children. But a trip to one of Elton Ukrainian orphanages changed everything. Singer so attached to HIV-infected boy named Leo, he intends to make changes in local laws prohibiting same-sex couples to adopt children.
Actress Heather Matarazzo and Caroline Murphy musician
At 3 years
"It was love at first sight," - says the star of the film "The Princess Diaries," his meeting with Caroline. A year after they met on July 31, 2008, the pair became engaged. "Our engagement was a very romantic - says the actress. - First, I proposed marriage to Caroline, and then she did the same. "In love with the wedding not in a hurry - they live in California, where for some time banned same-sex unions. "I was incredibly lucky - recognized happy bride. - I met my soul mate. And it does not matter what it is sex. "
Actor Richard Chamberlain and manager Martin Rabbett
At 26 years old
Richard Chamberlain now just do not know. You to remember what it was in "The Thorn Birds", we put in an additional one of his famous photographs
Once again, looking at "The Thorn Birds", we admired the courage and beauty of the hero, not realizing that for more than 20 years, he is happy with his manager Martin Rebbettom. "I am very grateful to him. Even I can not imagine how difficult it was to Martin hide from the world our relations - Richard wrote 13 years later in his memoirs, entitled 'Towards Love. "- Martin knew that the recognition of non-traditional sexual orientation destroy my career. "Now, when Richard exchanged seventies and no longer in films, he enjoys a quiet family life in Hawaii. "From the first minutes of our meeting, I realized that this man was waiting for all his life - he says of Martin. - And I still feel that I was not mistaken. "
Musician Darren Hayes and Richard Cullen multiplier
At 6 years
Darren and Richard so rare shot together that only a joint photograph, we were able to find only the blog Pepper Hilton. Blogger so deeply moved that decorated the picture with hearts
June 19, 2006 Savage Garden star Darren Hayes married to Richard Cullen. The wedding ceremony was held in London soon after the British were allowed same-sex unions. "I am happy to live in a time when relations between the two loving people can be officially registered," - admitted in an interview with Darren. Their orientation handsome musician stopped hiding in 2000, when divorced from his high school love, vizazhistkoy Colby Taylor. "I am happy to have found someone with whom I calmly and well, - he said of his wife. - Not everyone can boast. "
Actor Stephen Fry and Daniel Cohen seller
At 15 years old
Stephen and Daniel can not catch together in front of you is a rare photograph of the couple posing together
Before meeting with Daniel one of the most beloved British comedians and writers sixteen (!) Kept the vow of abstinence. Seller vitamins paved the way to the heart of Stephen through the stomach, because he is well prepared. "In so many hidden talents of Daniel that in the fifteen years I have not been able to learn about them all" - Stephen admires. The couple lives in a mansion in the English county of Norfolk, the design of which they made together, and at times chosen to London (for example, for the premiere of the fairy tale "Alice in Wonderland," in which Stephen voiced the Cheshire Cat).