Sex and the City star Cynthia Nixon met Christine Marinoni at a rally in New York in 2003. Since then, they have lived in perfect harmony, raising two children - 15-year-old daughter Samantha and 7-year-old son Charles from Cynthia's marriage to Professor Danny Moses, with whom the actress lived for fifteen years. “I fell in love with Christine for who she is,” the actress admits. “Would I pay attention to her if she were a man? I don’t know. I feel very good with her.” When asked how the children reacted to new love her mother, Cynthia confidently replies that "everything went great." "The son was still quite small," she recalls.

Designer-director Tom Ford and editor Richard Buckley have been together for 23 years. "Richard is the person I love more than anyone in the world," the creator of the drama "A Single Man", one of the most poignant films of this year, does not hide his feelings. The couple met back in 1986 during a photo shoot for Vogue Hommes International magazine, edited by Richard. In 1989, fate prepared a serious test for the lovers - Richard was diagnosed with cancer.

Now that the disease has been defeated, the couple is leading a "happy monogamous" life away from the metropolis on a ranch in New Mexico and is thinking about children. “I don’t want to live to be 75 years old and leave behind only dresses,” Tom shared with Fantastic Man. “Richard will make a wonderful father. A child will give our life a new meaning.”

Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi

There is hardly a more popular couple in Hollywood than these blond beauties: the winner of 11 Emmy awards and the star of the TV series Ally McBeal. TV presenter Ellen DeGeneres and actress Portia de Rossi met at the VH1 ceremony in December 2004, and since then it is simply impossible to imagine them separately.

Having played a wedding in California in 2008 (many publications dreamed of covering the ceremony, but wedding photos graced the cover of People magazine), the couple lead an exemplary family life and begin to think about children.

“If the baby is as beautiful as Brad and Angelina’s kids, then we will start working on it right now,” Ellen jokes. “But seriously, having a baby is significant event that will fill our lives with something special."

Elton John and David Furnish

Musician Elton John and filmmaker David Furnish have been together for 17 years. "David is the most sincere person I know," Elton John never tires of repeating. "Meeting him is the best thing that happened in my life." The musician met the designer and film director at one of the receptions in 1993. Elton helped the chosen one overcome alcohol addiction from which he suffered in the 90s.

December 21, 2005 - immediately after same-sex marriage was allowed in Britain - the lovers got married at the City Hall in Windsor. The ceremony was called "one of the most expensive" by the press and brought together all the star friends of the couple, including David and Victoria Beckham.

Not every man, even a very rich one, will shower his beloved woman with flowers all year round, and Elton spends up to half a million dollars a year on flowers for David. David loves animals, and Elton does not skimp on the appropriate gifts: an Arabian horse, a rare deer breed, an exotic donkey...

Stephen Fry and Daniel Cohen

Actor Stephen Fry and salesman Daniel Cohen have been together for 15 years. Before meeting Daniel, one of the most beloved English comedians and writers for sixteen years (!) kept a vow of abstinence. The vitamin salesman made his way to Steven's heart through his stomach, because he's a great cook. “There are so many talents hidden in Daniel that in fifteen years I have not been able to find out about them all,” Stephen admires. The couple lives in big mansion in the English county of Norfolk, which they designed together, and from time to time is selected to London (for example, to the premiere of the fairy tale "Alice in Wonderland", in which Stephen voiced the Cheshire Cat).

Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka

American actor Neil Patrick Harris has publicly declared his homosexuality in an interview with People magazine. His partner - David Bartka played a cameo role in the series "How I met your mother" (How I met your mother). "I'm happy to dispel any rumors and misconceptions and I'm proud to say that I'm a perfectly content gay living full life and working with great people in a business that I love," the Hollywood actor said.

Elton John and David Farnish. Now few people remember that the famous musician, who sold more than 200 million records in his career, was married to a German woman Renata Blauel 20 years ago: "I still regret it, because I was not honest with Renata. I was married on her and at the same time knew that my nature was different. I consider her a wonderful woman, she could well ruin me, but she did not. That's what I call true friendship". With film director and producer Farnish, Sir Elton met in 1993, and 12 years later, on December 21, 2005, on the first day when homosexual marriages were allowed in Britain, they got married. The ceremony entered all lists of the most expensive weddings of all time and nations, more than one and a half million dollars were spent on it.At the same time, the spouses, who have 10 godchildren, including the children of David and Victoria Beckham, are not going to have children: "We do not want to leave the upbringing of children in the hands of nannies and maids." A busy work schedule prevents kids from devoting all their time to lovers. Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson. Before Samantha among Lohan's suitors - actresses, models, singers and three times participants in the list of "100 most sexy women planets" - were rapper Aaron Carter, actor Wilmer Valderrama, owner of a chain of eateries Calum Best and snowboarder Riley Giles. Lindsey began living with DJ Samantha Ronson in May last year, but the couple did not advertise their relationship in any way. show on the radio station, the host of the program said that Lohan and Ronson are a "good looking couple", to which the actress replied: "Thank you." The media took this as an official recognition and for the past six months they have been enjoying procrastinating this topic. Lindsay reacted like this: "People may think, whatever they want. I'm really happy, and everything else doesn't matter." A month ago, information appeared that the girls had broken up. "We are taking a short break so that I can focus on myself," the actress commented on the situation.
Tom Ford and Richard Buckley. The novel of the famous fashion designer and fashion journalist has been going on for more than 20 years. After Buckley was diagnosed with cancer, Ford said he wanted to have children: "Richard knows that I wanted this for a long time. This will give new meaning to his life. If things go on as usual, Richard will probably leave this planet before I do, and I won't have what I always wanted. I have always wanted children. I don't want to live to be 75 and just make a lot of dresses and build a few houses." A partner is skeptical about Tom's idea: "When I was 20, it was unheard of for gay men to have children. It was impossible." Zemfira Ramazanova and Renata Litvinova. The "scandal girl" Zemfira and the "goddess" Renata were in the center of everyone's attention even before they met each other. The singer's mistresses were either the former producer Anastasia Kalmanovich or the former driver Anna Kruchinina. But after meeting Litvinova, which happened during the recording of the soundtrack for the film "Goddess", the yellow press immediately "married" the girls. The media have long discussed Renata's divorce from her husband, businessman Leonid Dombrovsky, from whom the actress had a daughter, Ulyana, in 2001. The girls do not comment on the rumors in any way and continue their creative cooperation: from 2005 to 2007, Litvinova shot videos for the songs "Walk", "Blues", "Airplane", "Results", "We are breaking" for Zemfira, and in 2008 documentary"Green Theater in Zemfira".

George Michael and Kenny Goss. Brooke Shields and Melissa Meggiston were recorded as mistresses of the sweet-voiced Mackle, and he was one of the first on stage to openly declare his sexual orientation, which shocked the whole world. In 1993, the singer's lover Anselmo Feleppa died, and later George met former cheerleading coach Kenny Goss. Allegedly, this happened in one of the Los Angeles boutiques, according to another version - in a spa. Now the lovers live in two houses in London and Dallas and periodically declare that they are going to get married. But so far this has not happened, and the press seems to be tired of discussing the orientation of the musician. He himself says about it this way: "My sexuality is determined by the people I love." Darren Hayes and Richard Cullen. After divorcing his childhood friend, make-up artist Colby Taylor, Hayes, a member of the duo Savage Garden, immediately stopped hiding his orientation and married graphic designer Cullen. “I ended my first marriage for the reason that I considered myself gay, but did not want to be. I never lied about my sexual orientation, but I never made statements about this,” Darren later said. Indigenous Australian Hayes says about same-sex marriage: "I was born in a country where indigenous people did not have the right to vote in elections until the 60s. I do not compare sexual orientation with race, but I compare it with discrimination."
Johanna Sigurdardottir and Jonina Leosdottir. On February 1, 2009, Johanna Sigurdardottir became the head of the provisional government of Iceland. The former flight attendant not only has the longest tenure in the country's parliament, she is the world's first prime minister who does not hide her sexual orientation. From her first marriage to banker Thorvaldur Johannesson, Johanna has two sons and one stepson. In 2002, at the age of 60, the Prime Minister married the playwright, writer and journalist Jonina Leosdottir, who after the recent elections, it is quite possible that she will become the first lady of the country. Iceland is a liberal country, same-sex marriage was allowed there in 1996, so the prime minister's orientation does not cause a stir. The general secretary of the Social Democratic Alliance, Skuli Helgenson, puts it this way: "Her sexual orientation means nothing. Our electorate is very liberal. They don't care about the private lives of politicians." It is noteworthy that the organization of gays and lesbians in Iceland was organized in the year when Johanna was first elected to parliament - in 1978. Boris Berman and Ildar Zhandarev. For many years they have been living together, creating various television programs related to culture. In various interviews, they comment on their frequent trips "together" by the fact that fans do not recognize them individually. Jennifer Elijah helps Cher's daughter, Cheresty Bono, decide to undergo a gender reassignment operation, which was previously reported on Gossip.
Judy Foster and Cindy Bernard have been together for a long time, raising two children.
Sergei Lazarev and Mikhail Dvoretsky. Living together in Sergei's apartment since he started solo career. For everyone else, Mikhail is Sergey's director. They met in a nightclub, before that Mikhail did not have a permanent job.
Cynthia Nixon and Christina Marinoni. Sex and the City star Nixon and American education activist Marinoni met in 2004 during a class reduction campaign in New York City, in which both were involved. Prior to this meeting, the actress lived for 15 years in civil marriage with Danny Moses, with whom she gave birth to a daughter, Samantha, and a son, Charles. Cynthia says that the children were sympathetic to the appearance of their mother's girlfriend: "Everything was fine. My son was very young when it happened, and my daughter has an uncle who is gay, and her godparents are lesbians." Now the children live with their mother and her passion in Brooklyn. Cynthia Nixon about Marinoni: "I never felt some unconscious part of me that suddenly woke up or just came out of nowhere. There was no struggle, no attempts to overcome it. I just fell in love with her."
Ellen Lee DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi. The American actress, comedian and TV presenter and her partner are a complete family. Their wedding took place last summer in Los Angeles. They are called the most stylish lesbian couple.

Yesterday it became known that another same-sex couple officially legalized their relationship: the lead singer of The Gossip, shocking Beth Ditto married her old friend Kristen Ogata. The wedding ceremony took place in Hawaii in the presence of a hundred friends and relatives of the couple. Beth appeared at the altar in a dress designed by Jean Paul Gaultier, which was once.

Open same-sex relationships are not uncommon today, and more and more gay couples are striving to create a full-fledged family and get married. Let's see which of the celebrities with non-traditional sexual orientation has already decided on this important step and legalized their relationship in accordance with all the rules.

Elton John and David Furnish

The British musician and his husband are perhaps the most famous homosexual couple in the world. Their relationship cannot be officially called a marriage (in the language of UK law, their union is called a “civil partnership”), but this does not change the essence of things. Elton and David legalized their relationship in 2005 at the Windsor Municipal Hall, where Prince Charles and Camilla Parker-Bowles once married. Among those invited were such eminent guests as Madonna, Sting and Rod Stewart, and Victoria Beckham acted as a witness from John.

According to Elton, meeting David was "the happiest moment of his life." They met in 1993, a little later, Furnish helped his famous lover to finally cope with alcohol and drug addiction. Now the couple is considering officially getting married and having two lavish weddings: one in Britain, the other in the USA.

Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi

The famous TV presenter and actress got married in California in August 2008. The wedding ceremony was very modest - 19 guests, including the mothers of the heroes of the occasion - which cannot be said about wedding ring Porsha, whose ring finger was adorned with a 3-carat pink diamond. On the this moment Ellen and Portia have three dogs and four cats, but are increasingly thinking about children.

Michael Kors and Lance Leper

"America's best designer", according to Heidi Klum, and his colleague, the creative director of the Michael Kors house, have been waiting for a long time for the law on the legalization of same-sex marriages to come into force in New York. After signing the law in 2011, Kors immediately proposed to his lover, whom he met over 20 years ago when he came to an internship at fashion house Korsa. The wedding ceremony took place in a relaxed atmosphere on one of the beaches of Southampton - the groom and the groom were in white light suits, barefoot.

Cynthia Nixon and Christine Marinoni

Cynthia Nixon is a very brave woman. She decided to leave her husband after 15 years of marriage and the birth of two children and not to another man, but to the woman she loved. The act of the star of "Sex and the City" shocked her fans, but they did not begin to love her less. Cynthia and Christine met under very funny circumstances. As active women, they took part in the action against cuts in the budget of public schools, and went straight from there to the police for disturbing the public peace. Since then, the women have not parted. Together they went through a lot - through a misunderstanding of loved ones, through the cancer that Cynthia was diagnosed with and which she successfully overcame. The couple got married in New York in 2012, the year before they had a son.

Darren Hayes and Richard Cullen

Savage Garden lead singer's revelations about his sexual orientation may not be the same loud scandal, like Ricky Martin's coming out, but really surprised the fans. Hayes came out as gay in 2000, when he divorced his first wife, and in 2006 entered into a "civil partnership" with Richard Cullen, a London-based cartoonist. According to Darren, his real family life with Richard began long before marriage, but "disrespect from society" prompted him to legitimize the relationship.

On the one hand: what scientists say about same-sex couples

While supporters and opponents of same-sex marriages are breaking spears and smashing the Internet around the baitik in fierce disputes, scientists are quietly and calmly doing their job - counting, weighing and examining through a magnifying glass, without drawing any conclusions about ethics and morality. Here are some proven facts about same-sex couples, and where to attach this information is up to you.

Same-sex marriage is quite traditional

We say "culture" - we mean "European culture of the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries." This tiny piece of culture is indeed characterized by heterosexual unions and a family of the “mother, father, son, dog” model. But if you look more broadly, the picture changes. In some regions of Vietnam, matriarchy is still widespread - the head of the family is a woman, at the next level of subordination - her daughters, nieces, granddaughters and daughters-in-law, who take an active part in public life, and their numerous husbands take care of the house, serve household needs and people are not shown. Approximately the same thing is happening in West Sumatra, some Chinese provinces, in Ghana and somewhere in India. This is not a small ethnological curiosity - we are talking about tens of millions of people. In Africa and Oceania, sororat is common - a man takes as his wife not only a girl, but all her sisters at once. American Indians and ancient Romans (where without them) quite calmly and officially entered into same-sex marriages, and in some African countries, to this day, a widow can re-enter into an alliance, but with another woman. There are a huge number of transgender and transgender Katoys living in Thailand, and only an insignificant part of them are employed in the sex industry or dance on bar counters with a dubious reputation. So our usual family model is nothing more than one of the options, and for the same Vietnamese and Africans, it may also seem somehow strange.

Marriage is good for health

And this applies to both heterosexual and same-sex unions. To put it simply, once we start living together, we'll be less nervous anyway, cry at the cat, and eat frozen pizza. Christine Proulx of the University of Missouri has proven that happy couples are less likely to suffer from hypertension and depression and are generally more nervous than singles. A group of scientist Mark Hutzenbehler conducted the same study of homosexual couples and - surprise, surprise! came to the same conclusions. officiality marital status this effect is not affected, by the way - they get healthier both in a civil marriage and in a bureaucratic one.

Their children are more successful. May be

Judith Stacey and Timothy Biblartz investigated the fate of girls from ordinary and lesbian families to find out where they were subsequently led. It turned out that 53% of girls from families with two mothers after school went to study as doctors, lawyers and engineers, and in ordinary families Only 21% continued their studies. However, the sample was small - 30 families of both categories.

Their children are definitely not worse with them than with parents of different sexes

The American Psychological Association is not a railway station stall for you, it's a serious office. In 2005, they got busy there and put together 59 published articles and 8 dissertations written between 1972 and 2004 that dealt with the situation of children in homosexual families. The shortest summary of all theses fit on some 80 pages. It turned out that homosexual couples are no different from traditional ones in terms of love and care, but they use spanking and cuffs as educational measures much less often and read more books on pedagogy. Children from rainbow families have slightly higher self-esteem, they make decisions faster in critical situations, and their success in school is usually above average - although not significantly. None of the studies showed that such children have gender misidentification more often than in traditional families, and the percentage of gays and lesbians among them is no higher than the average for the hospital.

Homosexual couples are stronger than heterosexual ones

The UK Office for National Statistics has been keeping a rigorous tally since 2010 broken hearts and reports: 5.5% of marriages in England and Wales end in divorce and maiden name within the first 4 years. During the same period, only 2.5 percent of homosexual couples break up. There are no such data for Russia, but here's a statistical candy for you - in the first 4 years family life we have about 18% of divorces.

But lesbians are more accurate than gays

In 2003, a survey on fidelity was conducted at the University of Vermont, and it turned out that the views of opposite-sex and lesbian couples roughly converge: about 80% of both said that they would not tolerate betrayal and would not cheat themselves. Among gays, the situation is different - more than half of the couples have nothing against walking left.

They are more likely to adopt those who no one needs

A study conducted by the Williams Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles found that, as a percentage, same-sex couples are more likely to express a desire to take care of children with severe hereditary diseases, disabled children and those who have already passed the age of the blond angel, but have not found foster parents. Economists step away from their calculators for a moment and insert that a ban on same-sex couples from adopting babies would cost the budget $130 million annually.

They are exactly the same

Oddly enough, it took a whole study to get to that point. Psychologist Gregory Herek from the University of California interrogated dozens of homo- and heterosexual couples for years, pestered them with interviews, questionnaires and tests, and in 2006 delivered a verdict: all happy couples are equally happy, experience the same emotions for each other, love sex equally , watch a movie under the covers and figure out whose turn it is to take out the bucket.

Text: Olga Lysenko

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A: From now on, same-sex unions are recognized as valid in all states. The strongest public outcry caused by the news has not subsided for several days: celebrities and mere mortals express their opinions in the media, blogs and in social networks. Some condemn the Supreme Court's decision, some are perplexed, and some write posts filled with jubilation, supplying them with the hashtag #lovewins ("love wins" - eng.).
And while the public decides how to treat the new law, we decided to remember the strongest and happiest couples, own example Proving that love and truth wins.

The pop music legend and film producer got married in March 2014. They have been waiting for this day, no less than 21 years: during this time, the couple (the family resorted to the services of a surrogate mother) managed to have sons Zachary and Elijah.

Lance Bass, a member of N'Sync, a popular boy group in the early 2000s, and artist Michael Turchin got married last December and became the first gay couple whose wedding was broadcast on American TV: this event, E! devoted a whole reality project.

The former member of the duo Savage Garden and the animation director got married in London in 2006 after only two years of relationship, and in 2013 they received another marriage certificate confirming that their marriage was valid in California. The couple will celebrate their tenth wedding anniversary next year.

The hero of Neil in the comedy series How I Met Your Mother is a real bon vivant, a reveler and a womanizer. The actor himself has been faithful to his chosen one, actor David Bartke, for several years now. The couple is raising twins Gideon and Harper, and in 2014 they became legal spouses.

Writer, actor, civic leader and equal rights activist Stephen Fry tied the knot with his chosen one, stand-up comedian Elliott Spencer, in February of this year. fry older than husband for 30 years, but the age difference did not become an obstacle for the couple. "The secret to our relationship is Steve's amazing sense of humor," admits the 27-year-old Spencer. And it's hard to disagree with him.

The famous American TV presenter Ellen DeGeneres and the star of the series "Arrested Development" Portia de Rossi got married in 2008 in Los Angeles, and two years later the actress officially took her wife's surname, leaving maiden name as a working alias. The couple lives with three dogs and four cats and is rumored to be planning to become parents.

The love story of actress Cynthia Nixon and public figure Christine Marinoni could be the subject of a movie: when the Sex and the City star met her future wife, she was recovering from a divorce from her husband, teacher Danny Moses. Shortly after meeting Christine, she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Not without the help of her beloved, the movie star courageously overcame the disease, and in 2009 the couple announced their engagement, and three years later they got married. There are three children in their family: daughter Samantha and son Charles from Nixon's first marriage and baby Max, who was born in 2011 by Christine.