By Lily Rose
12:54 PM PDT, September 28, 2021
You’ve seen them on Instagram, onscreen and now you’ll see your favorite celebrity LGBTQ couples on the red carpet. Whether they’re newly dating, newlyweds or couples who have been together a long time, these celebs and their partners posed on red carpets all over the world, looking very much in love. Representation matters, especially at events where thousands of photos are being taken and seen. We’re celebrating past and present LGBTQ couples in Hollywood and showing off who looks all loved up on the red carpet.
Sarah Paulson and Holland Taylor
The actresses shared a sweet moment on the red carpet for the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures opening gala.
Paulson and Taylor have been together since 2015.
Niecy Nash and Jessica Betts
In 2021, the actress and her singer wife attended the Marcell Von Berlin Spring/Summer 2022 runway fashion show in Los Angeles.
The couple, who married in 2020, shared a sweet moment on the red carpet.
Da Brat and Jesseca Dupart
The couple got cozy on the red carpet for the Brat Loves Judy We TV watch party at Views Bar and Grill in Atlanta.
The rapper and her CEO girlfriend wore matching jackets.
Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Justin Mikita
The couple posed for a photo on the 2021 Tony Awards red carpet.
Mikita took a moment to adjust Ferguson's bow tie.
Gigi Gorgeous and Nats Getty
In 2020, the couple attended the Christian Cowan x Powerpuff Girls runway show in Los Angeles.
Gorgeous and Getty married in 2019.
Portia de Rossi and Ellen DeGeneres
The affectionate couple, who have been married since 2008, struck a pose on the 2020 Golden Globe Awards red carpet.
Lauren Morelli and Samira Wiley
The Orange Is the New Black star and her TV writer wife looked happy together at the TrevorLIVE Los Angeles Gala in 2019. The couple wed in 2017.
Catherine Shepherd and Brandi Carlile
The country music couple posed for a photo on the 2019 Academy of Country Music Awards red carpet in Las Vegas.
Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka
The How I Met Your Mother star and his husband, pictured on the Golden Heart Awards red carpet in 2016, celebrated their sixth wedding anniversary in September 2020.
Sarah Paulson and Holland Taylor
The couple made a striking pair on the 2019 Vanity Fair Oscar Party red carpet. As a guest on a 2019 episode of Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen, the Ratched star revealed that the pair got together after Taylor slid into her DMs.
Tessa Thompson and Janelle Monae
The on-again, off-again couple attended the 2018 Los Angeles premiere of Annihilation together in Westwood, California. “We love each other deeply,” the Westworld star said in an interview, of her relationship with the Dirty Computer singer. “We’re so close, we vibrate on the same frequency. If people want to speculate about what we are, that’s okay. It doesn’t bother me.”
Wanda and Alex Sykes
The married couple sparkled on the 2010 Emmy Awards red carpet. They have been married since 2008 and are the parents of twins.
Jwan Yosef and Ricky Martin
The “She Bangs” singer and his husband posed on the 2018 Vanity Fair Oscar Party red carpet. Martin and Yosef have been quarantining with their four children and Martin’s mother.
Simon Halls and Matt Bomer
The Boys in the Band actor and his entertainment PR husband looked dashing on the 2015 Golden Globe Awards red carpet. The couple has been married since 2011.
Jussi-Pekka Kajaala and Adam Rippon
The Olympic figure skater and his Dancing With the Stars champ beau attended the Virgin Holidays Attitude Awards red carpet together in 2018. The couple met on Tinder before the Winter Olympic Games and became Instagram official in April that year.
Cynthia Nixon and Christine Marinoni
The actress and former gubernatorial candidate and her political activist wife smiled together at the 2014 Pre-White House Correspondents' Dinner Reception in Washington, D.C. The couple married in 2012.
Lance Black and Tom Daley
The Olympian and his screenwriter husband posed together on the 2014 red carpet for the Dallas Cowboys and Jacksonville Jaguars NFL game at Wembley Stadium in London. The couple welcomed their first child in 2018.
Denis O'Hare and Hugo Redwood
The married couple attended the 67th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards together. They have a son.
Justin Mikita and Jesse Tyler Ferguson
The Modern Family star looked so in love on the 2017 Vanity Fair Oscar Party red carpet. The couple, who married in 2013, welcomed their first child in 2020.
Beanie Feldstein and Bonnie Chance Roberts
The Booksmart star and her girlfriend walked the Cats world premiere red carpet together in 2019. The couple, who post super-sweet Instagram photos together, met on the set of How to Build a Girl.
Ali Krieger and Ashlyn Harris
The U.S. Women's National Soccer team players and 2019 World Cup winners, made an impressive-looking couple on the Guggenheim International Gala Pre-Party red carpet that year. It was a big year for Krieger and Harris. They also got married in 2019!
Elliot Page and Emma Portner
The Tales of the City star and his wife attended the show’s premiere in New York at The Metrograph in 2019. The couple wed in 2018.
Jaymes Vaughan and Jonathan Bennett
The Celebrity Big Brother personality and his boyfriend looked smart on the 2019 Thirst Gala red carpet. They became Instagram official on Halloween of that year.
Niecy Nash and Jessica Betts
It may not be a red carpet, but all eyes were on the Claws star when she walked down the aisle to marry Betts in 2020. "[My marriage] has absolutely nothing to do with gender and it has everything to do with her soul," Nash said in an interview, about Betts. "She is the most beautiful soul I have ever met in my life."
Amber Laign and Robin Roberts
The couple, who met on a blind date, smiled together on the 2018 GLAAD Media Awards red carpet in New York City. “She's very, very supportive and she's been right there beside me every step of the way,” the Good Morning America co-host said of her long-term girlfriend in an interview.
Tig Notaro and Stephanie Allynne
The actresses embraced on the red carpet for a Los Angeles special screening of Just Before I Go in 2015. The couple are the parents of twins.
George and Brad Takei
The Star Trek actor and his husband posed on the red carpet for The Inheritance in 2019. The couple married in 2008.
Todd Spiewak and Jim Parsons
The Big Bang Theory star and his husband got suited-up for the 2019 Tony Awards. In September 2020, Parsons revealed that both he and his husband battled coronavirus earlier that year.
Tan and Rob France
The dapperly dressed Queer Eye star and his husband posed on the red carpet for the Elton John AIDS Foundation’s 2020 Academy Awards viewing party. The couple originally met online.
Dewey Do and Bobby Berk
The Queer Eye designer and his husband cozied up to one another at the launch of Berk's A.R.T. Furniture in 2019. The couple married in 2012.
Ian Jordan and Karamo Brown
The Queer Eye star and his former beau attended the Save the Children's Centennial Celebration: Once in a Lifetime red carpet together in 2019. They split in September 2020 after 10 years together. "We're still good friends," Brown said on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. "It's very nice when it's like, 'I still love you and support you.' I want him to be happy, he wants me to be happy."
Gigi Gorgeous and Nats Getty
The YouTuber and her Getty heiress wife looked cute on the 2019 red carpet for the Anastasia Karanikolaou for Oh Polly Valentine's Day launch at Poppy in Los Angeles. The couple married that same year.
Nico Tortorella and Bethany Meyers
The Younger star and his longtime partner, who both identify as non-binary, got glam for the 2018 CMT Music Awards red carpet. Tortorella and Meyers, who have been in a polyamorous relationship for 11 years, tied the knot in 2018.
Jane Lynch and Jennifer Cheyne
The Weakest Link host and her girlfriend were all smiles on the 2019 Hammer Museum Gala red carpet. "My partner makes me thankful all day long," Lynch said in an interview.
Cara Delevingne and Ashley Benson
The model and the actress attended the BOSS fashion show during Milan Fashion Week Fall/Winter 2020 - 2021 in February 2020 together. The couple, who made their relationship official in 2019, split a few months after the event.
Ella Mielniczenko and Hannah Hart
The YouTuber and her fiancée attended the 30th Annual GLAAD Media Awards together. Hart popped the question in 2018. The cute couple planned to get married in 2020 but postponed their wedding due to the coronavirus outbreak.
Grant Shaffer and Alan Cumming
The married couple attended the Elton John AIDS Foundation's 15th Annual Benefit together in 2016. “He’s lovely, kind and hilarious, but he’s also the first person who hasn’t wanted to change me,” Cumming told Closer. “We respect each other and we were a bit older when we met, so you know yourself more and are more respectful.”
Rhea Butcher and Cameron Esposito
The comedian couple posed for the cameras on the Comedy Central Pre-Emmys Party red carpet in 2016. Butcher and Esposito were married in 2015 and later split in 2018.
Simon Doonan and Jonathan Adler
The designer and the creative ambassador attended the 2019 FGI Night of Stars Gala at Cipriani Wall Street in 2019. The couple married in 2008.
Scott Icenogle and Sean Hayes
The actor, who originally met his husband through Ellen DeGeneres, while Icenogle was a deejay on her show, attended the 30th Annual GLAAD Media Awards in 2019 together. The couple wed in 2014.
Jason Landau and Cheyenne Jackson
The married couple posed together at the 2019 amfAR Gala in Los Angeles. They have two children.
Alana Mayo and Lena Waithe
The couple, who secretly married in 2019, attended the 2019 Golden Globe Awards together. They split in 2020.
Kiersey Clemons and Ebony De La Haye
The actress and her stunt double girlfriend looked cozy at The Hollywood Reporter's Empowerment in Entertainment event in 2019. “I think we really bonded from the beginning as friends. She was just the most relatable person to me in terms of interests and obviously being queer,” Clemons told Variety.
Tuc Watkins and Andrew Rannells
The Boys in the Band actors, who originally met during the 2018 revival of the Mart Crowley play, posed together at the Elton John AIDS Foundation Academy Awards viewing party. “It’s called a showmance. It’s when you fall in love during a show,” The Book of Mormon star said as a guest on The Drew Barrymore Show. “We met and I felt like such a lazy actor that I fell in love with my co-star. I was like, this is so cliché.”
King Princess and Amandla Stenberg
The singer and the actress posed together during the 2018 MTV Movie & TV Awards in 2018. The couple split in 2019. Stenberg is credited as a writer on the King Princess song “P**sy Is God.”
Richert Schnorr and B.D. Wong
The Jurassic World actor and his husband attended The Trevor Project TrevorLIVE NYC event in 2017. They were married in 2018.
Billy Porter and Adam Smith
The Pose star married his husband in 2017. They attended the 73rd Annual Tony Awards together in 2019.
Georges LeBar and RuPaul
The Drag Race host and his husband looked fabulous at the 2019 Met Gala, where the theme was “Celebrating Camp: Notes on Fashion.” The couple was married in 2017. RuPaul says that they made the decision after the results of the 2016 election. “We are devoted to each other,” he told ET. “We don’t stand on ceremony. We thought, we don’t have to get married. But then, in light of what’s happening currently in the world today, what’s happening in Washington, we thought, you know what? Let’s do it. Let’s just do it, because there’s too much at stake with our businesses ... so, that’s why we did it.”
Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi
The couple looked cozy on the 41st Annual People's Choice Awards red carpet in 2015. The Arrested Development star showed her support for DeGeneres in August 2020 when she posted a graphic that read "I Stand By Ellen" on Instagram.
Wanda and Alex Sykes
The married couple posed together at the 2017 premiere of Snatched at Regency Village Theatre in Westwood, California. The comedian posts tons of sweet Instagram photos and videos with her French-born wife.
Lauren Morelli and Samira Wiley
The Orange Is the New Black couple attended the 2019 Tales of the City New York premiere together. Morelli says the storyline between Piper Chapman and ex-girlfriend Alex Vause was her catalyst to come out. "I was nervous about the first love scene I'd written for Alex and Piper," Morelli wrote in an online essay. "I was so deep in my own self-doubt that I constantly felt like a fraud. I was married to a man, but I wasn't straight. I found a mouthpiece for my own desires and a glimmer of what my future could look like."
Cara Delevingne and Annie Clark
The model and the singer visited Denmark together in 2016 for the “Jonathan Yeo Portraits” Exhibition at Frederiksborg Castle. Although the couple split that same year, during their relationship, Delevingne said, "I'm completely in love. Before, I didn't know what love was - real love. I didn't understand the depth of it. I always used to think it was you against the world. Now I know the meaning of life is love. Whether that's for yourself or for the world or your partner."
Alex Newell and Zeke Thomas
The Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist star and his boyfriend attended the 28th Annual GLAAD Media Awards together in 2017.
Beanie Feldstein and Bonnie Chance Roberts
The entertainment industry couple was all smiles at the Gold Meets Golden 2020 event in Beverly Hills.
Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka
The married couple and parents of two posed together on the 70th Annual Tony Awards red carpet in New York City.