Talkshow host Ellen DeGeneres appeared on The Oprah Show last week alongside wife Portia de Rossi and discussed everything from how she and de Rossi met, getting married and marriage equality.
The pair married in August 2008 during the brief period same-sex marriage was legal in California.
"I feel very fortunate, very lucky that I found that connection," DeGeneres said of her wife, calling her "the smartest, kindest, most wonderful woman that you’ll ever, ever know."
"[Marriage is] a legal stamp of validity. It’s hard to know it feels until it happens," de Rossi told Oprah.
"I hope everyone gets to have that feeling. The thing about being a gay couple is that, in the past, you referred to your wife and there were quotation marks around it and people could snicker about it. Now, it’s fact, it’s law - she’s my wife. I get to say she’s my wife and it’s a fact."
The Australian actress said on the show that she knew DeGeneres was the one for her when she first met her.
"But it took me three years to actually tell her how I felt about her, because I was on Ally McBeal at the time and wasn't living as an openly gay person," de Rossi said. "I was closeted and very, very afraid that if I talked about being gay it would be the end of my career. So I wasn't about to date the most famous lesbian in the world."
In the December issue of O: The Oprah Magazine, DeGeneres, 51, tells Oprah Winfrey that she and Portia, 36, "are perfect for each other.” Four magazine covers are available, and see Ellen’s hilarious mock-covers she created before the shoot and photos from behind the scenes of the cover shoot.
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Someday Ellen will follow my tweets, I wish.
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Why don't you come and pay a visit to the Malaysian gay community and impart some of your 'bloke knocking in the head' wisdom for most gay men here who don't even know how to be a friend, much less to walk down the aisle for a lifetime's legal commitment known as 'marriage', something unknown for the GLBTIs here?
The only 'marriage' we know here is the one on how to make the media and social forces happy besides rearing a whole farmyard of self clones for the family lineage. Yeah I know, as Tina Turner sang: "What's love got to do with it?" Nothing exactly.
This is a smack in the faces to all those cynical gay people who always believe it's senseless to fight the rights for gay marriage.
Thank you for being an inspiration.
See how small minds implode without any need for logic or truth.
Bless you Ellen and Portia. Wishing you both many more great happy years ahead! Hugs!
Marriage in a white dress, blessed by a priest and sacred under God is a Christian insitution. As an atheist, it has no place in my life, and wouldn't were I straight. A certificate guaranteeing me common-law status with my partner and the opportunity to adopt or father children would be quite enough for me, thank you! So long as you love eachother, who cares about some quotation marks?
How can anyone top that when your god says you must enslave, hate, discriminate, emasculate, judge..etc..all those delicious forbidden vice and flavors mankind takes so naturally to if left unrestrained?
And so called christians wonder why they all will be subjected to the Great Tribulation and be persecuted during the end times. You asked for it, you get it back 3x 3 x 3. Simple.
Other faiths call it Retribution, a known Cosmic Law; as old as homosexuality itself and earlier beyond.
anyway, who wrote the bible? HUMAN.. so why would you care..
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