WATCH: A Treasury of our 16 Favorite Gay & Lesbian Surprise Proposals

If you’re the type who cries at weddings, you may want to brace yourself for this post: a mega-roundup of our very favorite gay and lesbian marriage proposals. Awwwww. (If we missed any, please chime in down in the comments with your favorites!) Click through for surprises, flashmobs, giddy friends and relatives, and of course lots and lots of crying. Let’s kick it off with Brian and Scotty: nice, quick, to-the-point. We are tearing up already. Looking for something a bit more epic? Our next pick involves Kylie Minogue.
According to the description, Ben proposed to Scott during Kylie’s Aphrodite tour in Perth. Then everyone cried. Oh, but perhaps Kylie’s not a big enough celebrity for you? Well, fine, then, have a little Mariah Carey.
So, OK, these on-stage proposals are all very grand, but some of us homebodies prefer the peace and quiet of each others’ company with no outside interlopers. And that is why these two cutest bears in the world have brought us to tears. The Christmas stuff! The music box! The weeping men! We are a wreck.
Well, Macklemore is a hero, and that settles that. Also, girl, we are living for that look. We are this close to proposing marriage to your stunning ensemble.
Because we gays have not quite inherited the cultural norms of marriage in the same way that straight people have, sometimes our proposals can look very nonchalant. We love this for the baffled “are you for real?” Followed by “OK, fine, I’ll do it.” And then humping.
OK, the lesbians are really raising the bar with the production values here. At first we were all, “oh, God, Glee? COME ON, we are too cool for this.” And then we were crying, so, obviously we’ve learned a lot about ourselves today.
We are back to on-stage proposals. Apparently there are a lot of homosexuals in theater or something. This is a long one — skip to around 1:40 for the start of the sobbing and then stick with it to 3:00 for the kneel, at which point everyone loses control. You may wish to pop out after that, depending on your opinion of a cappella.
Please don’t besmirch this Space Needle proposal with thoughts of the venue’s phallic symbolism. Jon and Justin are the cutest, that is all, and at this point our face has basically become a complete puffy mess.
http://youtu.be/stGyRrUfa2o Oh yes, it’s another mid-performance proposal. This one features rainbow strobes. Skip to 4:10 for the excitement and an ostentatious hat, and then 5:20 for shrieks and gasps and more of us weeping into our keyboard. This post has been an emotional roller-coaster for us to write, by the way. You’re welcome.
Lesbians, you really do seem to have mastered the creative proposal. This is ingenious and you are amazing and that’s that.
Here’s another that is charming in its nonchalance. Look at how calm these boys are! And oh God the cowboy hats and country music, aw gee whiz shucks. Also, prospective proposers, take note: you should go into the operation with a plan for the kiss, because if one person’s sitting and the other’s kneeling you may find yourself in an awkward crouchy hunchback pose. Think ahead, is all we’re saying. Also, we just ran out of tissues, please send help.
This may be our favorite for all the planning it must’ve involved. Also, the moment when Paolo realizes something’s afoot and starts looking around, bewildered. WE DIED.
Is this a thing? The mutual proposal? From the description: “Jenn had already surprised me with an amazing proposal in Cape Cod earlier in the month and this is my proposal to her!” Well, that’s adorable. Yes, girl. Yes. Also, there’s this: “It took place at Celebrate Brooklyn!, June 30, 2012 at Angelique Kidjo’s Women Waging Peace concert.” Of course it did.
We love when fans enlist major performers to essentially host the proposal. Look at how Domenick can barely stand because he knows what’s about to happen! AWWWWW, and now we are all Garbage fans.


Oh you know, just a normal day at Google. There’s a roar of joy at 2:40, and then we are a puddle of jelly.

Well, that was an experience. Did we miss any great proposal videos? We probably did. Send us links! We will deal with them as soon as we are no longer emotionally devastated. Please also send ten thousand hugs.

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  • mjcc1987

    Last week I proposed to my partner of 25 years. No cameras, no audience. Just us in a small park next to the water in Occoquan Virginia. He had no clue. We drove there and really, he went because he knew going was somehow important to me. We walk into the little park (and I mean little), surrounded by trees and park benches in each corner. I ask him to pick a corner and sit down. He’s annoyed I can tell, but picks the shaded corner and plops down. Tourists being tourists are wandering around bumping into each other, but I only see him.

    Even after 25 years together, I am incredibly nervous. Knowing I would forget everything I wanted to say, I unfolded my hand written scrawl, sit down next to him and commence to lip flap’n. Within a minute or two, I see on his face recognition of what I am doing. It was priceless. My voice starts to crack and I get one knee and tears are streaming down his face (and maybe a wee bit on my face as well). I pop the question and the Korean tourists are snapping pictures left and right while he greedily accepts the ring and begins an immediate inspection of the diamonds. We will marry in Maryland or DC as it’s not legal in Virginia…………… yet. After 25 years, I will wait no longer.

    It was not a production and not on YouTube or god forbid xtube, but in my humble assessment, just as cute. Don’t be concerned that your proposal will seem to fall short based on what you see, just do it and it will be memorable because it will come from your heart.

  • tardis

    What a sweet story. I wish you two the best!

  • sfbeast

    oy, I’m verklempt. they all made me teary eyed. (even the one where I think the marriage will last about a week.)

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