When Stephen Fry was about to get married to Elliott Spencer, people were upset he was marrying a man 30 years younger than him.
He was accused of ‘cradle snatching’ and being ‘creepy’ while his fiancé Elliott Spencer was labeled a ‘gold digger’ and ‘fake’.
But who’s to say what their relationship is like?
Other gay couples have proved that you can form a real, loving relationship that proves age is just a number.
Some have lasted, and some have not.
And some like the last couple Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy, who met when they were 48 and 18 in 1953, stayed together until the former’s death in 1986.
We have listed their age as was correct in January 2017. If one died, we have the listed the age in which they passed.
Check out our list here:
Tom Daley, 22, and Dustin Lance Black, 42 – 20 years difference
Ellen DeGeneres, 58, and Portia De Rossi, 43 – 15 years difference
Stephen Sondheim, 86, and Jeff Romley, 38 – 48 years difference
Rachel Maddow, 43, and Susan Mikula, 58 – 15 years difference
Liberace, 67 (died in 1987) and Scott Thorson, 57 – 48 years difference
Sarah Paulson, 41, and Holland Taylor, 73 – 32 years difference
Tom Ford, 55, and Richard Buckley, 68 – 13 years difference
Eileen Myles, 67, and Leopoldine Core, 31 – 36 years difference
Elton John, 69, and David Furnish, 54 – 15 years difference
Sara Gilbert, 41, and Linda Perry, 51 – 10 years difference
Calvin Klein, 74, and Nick Gruber, 26, 48 years difference (broke up in 2012)
KD Lang, 55, and Leisha Hailey, 45 – 10 years difference (broke up in 2000)
Matt Bomer, 39, and Simon Halls, 52 – 13 years difference
Chely Wright, 46, and Lauren Blitzer, 36, 10 years difference
Christopher Isherwood, 81 (died in 1986), and Don Bachardy, 82 – 30 years difference
