15 LGBTQ+ celeb couples who are absolute relationship goals
John-Michael Kelly and Joel Kim Booster, Towa Bird and Reneé Rapp, and Alex Scott and Jess Glynne. (Getty)
John-Michael Kelly and Joel Kim Booster, Towa Bird and Reneé Rapp, and Alex Scott and Jess Glynne. (Getty)
From lesbian musicians to queer actors to gay theatre stars, here are some of the LGBTQ+ couples who are relationship goals to mark National Couples Day today (18 August).
Reneé Rapp and Towa Bird
Lesbian singer Reneé Rapp and British singer-songwriter and guitarist Towa Bird hard-launched their relationship in March 2024.
Since, the pair have regularly appeared in each other’s social media posts and even songs!
On Rapp’s new album, Bite Me, Bird features heavily. Rapp gets risqué about Bird on “Shy” and gets feisty about Bird’s ex on “Why Is She Still Here?”. Rapp’s never held back, but she is not afraid of being loud about adoring her girlfriend!
Bradley Riches and Scott Johnston
Heartstopper and Emmerdale star Bradley Riches got engaged to theatre director Scott Johnston during a romantic getaway to Italy.
Riches, who plays James McEwan in the hit Netflix show, shared a series of photos of the pair hugging and kissing while standing in a heart shape made of rose petals, overlooking the Italian coastline. “Erm…yes,” Riches wrote, alongside a heart emoji.
Riches has spent much of his career speaking openly about his experience with autism and bringing neurodivergent representation to the TV screens.
Kristen Stewart and Dylan Meyer
Love Lies Bleeding star Kristen Stewart has been in a relationship with screenwriter Dylan Meyer since August 2019.
The pair first met on a film set in 2013, but didn’t reconnect until a friend’s birthday years later. Just a few weeks into their romantic relationship, Stewart told her now-wife she loved her.
Stewart and Meyer got engaged in 2021, and the couple got married in an intimate ceremony in LA in 2025.
In 2024, Meyer co-founded Nevermind Pictures alongside Stewart and producer Maggie McLean – a production company that prioritises queer stories and underrepresented voices.
Jess Glynne and Alex Scott
“Hold My Hand” hitmaker Jess Glynne and sports commentator and former professional footballer Alex Scott make a star-studded LGBTQ+ couple.
It is unclear when they first met, but they were spotted together in May 2023. The Jet2 and football royalty, launched their relationship in 2024 with a kiss at the BRIT Awards after-party.
Glynne told PinkNews last year: “I am in a place where I feel connected to myself, which has allowed me to be real happy in love.“
Lucy Spraggan and Emilia Smith
X Factorstar Lucy Spraggan married Emilia Smith in 2024, with music boss Simon Cowell walking Spraggan down the aisle.
The “Tea and Toast” singer first met her wife in 2013 through mutual friends. When Spraggan got sober in 2019, the pair grew closer.
Spraggan has shared: “Emilia and I were those friends who said: ‘If we’re not married by the time we’re 40, we’ll get married to each other,’ and somehow, this deep friendship opened up into attraction.”
The wedding marked Spraggan’s second wedding following her separation from ex-wife Georgina Gordon in 2019, after three years of marriage.
Joel Kim Booster and John-Michael Kelly
Fire Island’s Joel Kim Booster and game producer John-Michael Kelly make the sweetest couple.
The pair got engaged in 2024, with Booster proposing to Sudsina on a boat in South Korea.
The pair have been dating for years and both their careers have excelled in recent years. Sudsina is a game producer at Riot Games, while Booster wrote and starred in Fire Island.
Ben Platt and Noah Galvin
What’s better than one singing boyfriend? Two singing boyfriends.
Musical theatre’s LGBTQ+ power couple Ben Platt and Noah Galvin got engaged in 2022 and married over the Labor Day weekend in 2024.
While Platt originated the titular role in Dear Evan Hansen, Galvin follows Platt as the second person in the role. The pair first met in 2015, surrounding the title role.
Since the musical, the pair starred together in the hilarious 2023 mockumentary Theater Camp.
Sarah Paulson and Holland Taylor
Actresses Sarah Paulson and Holland Taylor have been together since 2015. The sapphic power couple have now been stealing the show for over a decade.
They have become one of the best-known same-sex couples in Hollywood and recently revealed their secret to relationship success. Paulson revealed they don’t live together, explaining: “We’re together when we wanna be and we’re not when we don’t.”
The couple are challenged the “U-Haul lesbian” trope! Taylor has also been open about parts of their relationship. She shared that they’re unlikely to get married, saying: “It doesn’t seem to mean to us what it means to a lot of people.”
Ever since the couple became an item, after Taylor slid into Paulson’s DMs, they have had to bat away criticism of their age gap: Taylor is 82, Paulson is 50.
Tom Daley and Dustin Lance Black
Retired Olympic diver Tom Daley and director Dustin Lance Black have shrugged off comments about their 19-year age gap for over a decade now.
The pair met at an industry event and said it was love at first sight. They got engaged in 2015 and married in 2017.
The couple share two sons, whom they welcomed via surrogacy: Robbie and Phoenix.
Jodie Foster and Alexandra Hedison
Gay icon Jodie Foster and actor and photographer Alexandra Hedison got married in 2014.
At Foster’s LA handprint ceremony – which also marked the couple’s 10th anniversary – she gave an emotional tribute to her wife.
From 1993 to 2008, Foster was in a relationship with producer Cydney Bernard. Foster and Bernard welcomed their first child, Charles “Charlie” Bernard Foster, in 1998. Their second child, Christopher “Kit” Bernard, arrived in 2001.
Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner
Grace and Frankie actor Lily Tomlin is married to her writer and collaborator, Jane Wagner
Married in 2013, the pair have now been together for an incredible 54 years. They first met in 1971 and have collaborated on a number of projects.
The couple have always stood up for LGBTQ+ issues. For instance, Tomlin took a stand against right-wing Florida Governor DeSantis on anti-trans legislation.
Karan Soni and Roshan Sethi
A Nice Indian Boy director Roshan Sethi and star Karan Soni are a powerhouse creative LGBTQ+ couple.
The married couple have been together for a number of years now and A Nice Indian Boy wasn’t their first project together. They previously collaborated on romantic comedy 7 Days.
Soni has been a co-writer and/or cast member in all of Sethi’s films to date.
Beanie Feldstein and Bonnie-Chance Roberts
Booksmart’s Beanie Feldstein and producer Bonnie-Chance Roberts are another creative LGBTQ+ couple who make movies.
They first met in London in 2018, when Roberts cast Feldstein as the lead in Caitlin Moran’s How To Build A Girl.
The two film lovers tied the knot in 2023. Their wedding was a summer camp-themed ceremony: guests were given the “true camp experience” with “bandana tablecloths, s’mores for dessert, pennant banners and friendship bracelets”.
Colman Domingo and Raúl Domingo
The story of how Colman Domingo met his husband, Raúl Domingo, is practically the plot of a romantic movie.
A year-old clip from The Graham Norton Show sees Domingo explain he saw his now-husband at a Walgreens store. They walked past each other, but three days later Domingo found a post on Craigslist’s ‘Missed Connections.’
“On page two… as I’m reading, I see: ‘Saw you outside Walgreens, Berkeley’,” the actor remembers. A few days later they met and the rest is iconic gay history.
Domingo became only the second out gay man to be nominated for an Oscar, for his portrayal of a queer civil rights activist in Rustin. The first was British acting royalty Ian McKellen.
Lily-Rose Depp and 070 Shake
Nosferatu star Lily-Rose Depp and Danielle Balbuena, a rapper and singer known professionally as 070 Shake, are together. This is the first relationship that Rose Depp has publicly acknowledged.
They became Instagram official in May 2023, after they had been together for about four months.
The actress also starred in the music video for 070 Shake’s single “Winter Baby / New Jersey Blues.” Promoting the music video, Shake called Depp her “muse”.
