Valentine’s Day has arrived again, and as always, love is in the air.
This year, we decided to take a look at some adorable couples in light of a critical trend in our demographic. According to a recent UCLA study, gay and lesbian people are more likely to date interracially than non-gay couples. For those of us who understand that love is love, free of gender, race and sexual binaries, any couple that fights for love presents a special kind of inspiration to the world.
These couples and couples like them are the future.
With that in mind, have a look at these notable queer celebs who don’t let racism or homophobia get in the way of their love.
1. George Takei & Brad Takei
Everybody’s favorite Klingon-fighting, sword wielding gay uncle met his husband Brad back in the 1980s. They married in 2008.
2. Robin Roberts & Amber Laign
The GMA anchor came out in 2005 after meeting now-wife Amber. The two remain active, throwing shade at Omorosa (we’re still laughing).
3. Alec Mapa & Jamie Herbert
Ugly Betty actor Alec Mapa wed husband Jamie Herbert back in 2008. They adopted a son together, too.
4. Gerald McCulloch & Derrick Gordon
CSI actor McCulloch and beau Derrick Gordon (of college basketball fame) have no problem showing off together. Then again, if we looked this good, we’d show off all the time too.
5. Wanda Sykes & Alex Niedbalski
Funnywoman Sykes came out in 2008 as a way of raising awareness about Proposition 8. She married girlfriend Alex Niedbalski around the same time, and the two have a set of twins together.
Related: Robin Roberts Tears Up Talking About How Her Coming Out Helped One Young Gay Man
6. Don Lemon & Tim Malone
CNN anchor Lemon somehow manages to find time for a boyfriend amid his constant reporting on the never-ending cycle of Trump/Pence/GOP nincompoopery. Lemon has even started bringing his boyfriend, Tim Malone to work functions, like CNN’s New Year’s Eve coverage.
7. Mario Cantone & Jerry Dixon
Actor and comic Cantone wed his longtime boyfriend Jerry Dixon back in 2011. The two have been together for more than 25 years.
8. Tracy Chapman & Guinevere Turner
The “Fast Car” singer has long played coy about her sexuality, though in 2006 acknowledged relationships with women. These days, she gets spotted with gal pal, actress Guinevere Turner of The L Word fame.
9. Ricky Martin & Jwan Yosef
Omnihunk singer-actor Martin finally came out in 2011. He married boyfriend Jwan Yosef back in 2016, and the two have no problem showing off their marriage via instagram.
10. RuPaul & Georges LeBar
Icon, style guru, drag superstar, activist and all-around diva RuPaul married longtime boyfriend Georges LeBar in 2017. In a Brokeback twist, Georges works as a rancher. No doubt Ru has a great dress for days on the farm.
If any of these couples have broken apart unbeknownst to us, our condolences. If you know of any other interracial couples to note, please let us know in comments below.
Brody
I guess I need to explain to the two Hispanic couples I know how hate-filled they are for not marrying outside their race.
Oh well, Queerty’s gonna Queerty.
Kangol
“Hispanic” is not a “race.” Hispanic is an ethnic category created in the US. Hispanics, i.e., Latinxs, can be of any race.
Brody
Kangol –
You libs crack me up.
“Hispanic” doesn’t qualify as a race, but “Mexican” and “Muslim” do when referring to Trump’s “racist” border-securing policies.
DCguy
How SHOCKING!!!! The idea of a couple of different races dating enrages the one of the anti-lgbt troll’s screenames.
By the way sweetie, if you’re going to be a bigot, try to at least educate your self so you can spew hate correctly. Hispanic means born in a Spanish speaking country. Not a race cupcake. But then again, don’t worry, you’re an anti-lgbt bigot, we weren’t expecting you to be bright.
Kangol
@Brody, Trump’s “border-securing policies” and Muslim ban aim to exclude non-white people. He’s made that quite clear. That is racist.
I refuse to write the screen name of the deranged person who posted the anti-Semitic comment in this thread, but let’s not forget that over 6 million Jewish people were slaughtered by the Nazi regime, so making light of the racism that underpinned Nazi anti-Semitism is particularly atrocious.
blitzkid84
Why is it that any time someone here disagrees or had dissenting opinion they gave be be qualified as “trolls”? This place really needs some intellectual diversity… badly. And where was Brody being bigoted?
Juanjo
Oh honey, you say the silliest things. The article doesn’t state that one is required to have a romantic relationship with a person of a different ethnicity/race/religion. It refers to the fact that gay men and women tend to cross such lines more often than heterosexual couples. But hey, it is a lovely straw man and goes up in a large poof of flame when hit with a match.
As for that pos, Donnie the Con Artist, some people call him racist when referring to his border policy but they are being sloppy in their terminology. Kind of like you always are sloppy with your terminology.
Brody
Kangol –
Just because the groups he wants to ban (illegal border-crossers, Muslim terrorists) are non-whites does not—I repeat, does NOT—make his anti-illegal, anti-terrorism policies “racist.” If illegal immigrants and Islamic jihadists posed no threat to our sanctity and security, said policies wouldn’t exist.
Ummm –
Yeah, somehow, somewhere along the line, certain religions became a protected race.
Go figure.
blitzkid –
It’s just a typical knee-jerk reaction from hyper-sensitive commenters who can’t handle dissenting opinions. These same commenters also believe these opinions from myself and the few others of similar disposition come from only one individual out there posting under multiple names, so I don’t put a whole lot of stock in their judgment.
Donston
Celebrating interracial relationships is cool. It’s when you try to tell people that they have to be “open” to indulging an interracial relationship. That’s where the problems come along. Also, once again, this is about telling white people who to date while black, Asian, etc. people who only want to date their same race- they get to be left alone.
Finally, it’s not the “future”. It’s the now. There’s always been a higher ratio of interracial same-sex relationships than opposite gender. There’s nothing groundbreaking about it.
Donston
And including Ricky Martin and his husband is a reach at best.
Juanjo
Blah blah, blah, blah. What Miss Donstgon is saying here is that she had nothing important to say but she could not resist the urge to open her mouth,
Donston
I don’t even have back-and-forths with you. So, I don’t know what I said that got you caught in your feelings or got you thinking about yourself really hard, but I clearly touched you, because you’ve been throwing some desperate and lame barbs lately. What I’m saying in this post is pretty aparent, and you would have to try really hard to take offense to any of it. You clearly have no contribution other than to throw corny shade.
Ummmm Yeah
They are free to do whatever they want. However, the constant sexual harassment from Queerty and the crybaby writers it keeps posting stories from are not acceptable.
DCguy
Awww, and ANOTHER screename from the anti-lgbt troll still trying to do anything to turn any mention of an interracial couple into something negative.
Awww, you bigots are so bad at this it’s almost cute.
Ummmm Yeah
Awww another chaser that can’t handle the occasional rejection.
Juanjo
Ummmm dearie, that is even more incomprehensible than your usual drivel.
Kangol
Beautiful couples. It seems Queerty thinks that “interracial” automatically means a person who isn’t white has to be with someone who is, which is kind of…not really liberal, since it has the effect of centering having a white partner. There are black-asian american, latinx-arab, etc. couples. There are also people of the same race together too, like 2 white guys, etc.. Why not celebrate LGBTQ love in all its shades? Happy Valentine’s Day to all!
ChrisK
It’s funny that I could guess each celebrity and the kind of mate they’d end up with. Not even talking about race.
Aromaeus
Are there really no interracial couples where neither person is white?? Jwan could count but wikipedia says he’s syrian with armenian ancestry which is pretty much off-white.
Kangol
1 couple to highlight might be WWE superstar Darren Young and Nick Vila, whom I think they’ve featured on here before. What about Frank Ocean and his rumored boyfriend Memo Guzman? Also, Orlando Cruz, also featured on here, and José Manuel? Anyways, all the couples above look great!
Donston
Blindspots like that is why this site continues to miss the mark with most of its agenda. This was an opportunity to shout out interracial couples. Instead, it was simply white people and their non-white better halves.
Dymension
As a Puerto Rican like Ricky Martin, I fail to see how Jwan Yosef is a different race.
paul dorian lord fredine
i fail to see how ricky and jwan qualify as being ‘mixed race’. certainly of mixed ethnic/cultural backgrounds but ‘mixed race’? hardly.
chris33133
Congrats to the couples; may they live long and prosper.
Me2
I remember when gay interracial couples were somewhat of the norm; especially here in NYC.
Notright
As someone that is in an interracial relationship I really find these kinds of articles extremely annoying. I love my partner because he is him not because of his race. He just so happens to be have a different race than I am. Who the f**k cares?! Me being in an interracial relationship doesn’t make me any better or any worse than someone that isn’t.
Kieran
@Notright Beautifully said.
Kieran
Is it Ricky Martin or Jwan Yosef who is a different “race”? I can’t tell from their pictures.
GayEGO
Hey, we are all different and it should not be a big deal. Marry who you love!
CanadianGuy62
Does Queerty need a copy editor?
Valentine’s, as written in the headline, should be Valentines. It is being used as a plural – more than one Valentine – rather than a possessive.
It is really simple English grammar.
SiamSam
More disgusting race-baiting and white-shaming from Queerty.