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A 'same-sex couple' is a pair of people of the same gender who pursue a romantic or sexual relationship together.
The term "'same-sex relationship'" may be used when the sexual orientation of participants in a same-sex relationship is not known. As bisexual or pansexual people may participate in same-sex relationships, some activists claim that referring to a same-sex relationship as a "gay relationship" or a "lesbian relationship" is a form of bisexual erasure.
The term "'same-sex marriage'" is used similarly.

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Famous same-sex couples

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Famous same-sex couples

Some of these couples are known to have been lovers; others had a close relationship of some kind, but their sexuality is merely speculative, without definite evidence of a romantic involvement.

★ Khnumhotep & Niankhkhnum, ca. 2400 BC

★ Enkidu & Gilgamesh, legendary, based on a king of about 1900 BC

★ Naomi (Bible) & Ruth in the Book of Ruth, written about 900 BC

★ David & Jonathan, legendary, recorded about 900 BC

★ Achilles & Patroclus, legendary, recorded about 750 BC

★ Anactoria & Sappho, legendary, based on a poet of the 7th century BC

★ Chariton & Melanippus, rebels against the tyrant Phalaris in the 6th century BC

★ Polycrates & Smerdis, 6th century BC

★ Anacreon & Bathyllus, 6th century BC

★ Harmodius and Aristogeiton, 6th century BC

★ Alcibiades & Socrates, 5th century BC

★ Duke Ling & Mizi Xia, legendary, based on an aristocrat of the 5th century BC by Han Fei

★ Ampelos & Dionysus, mythological, from the writing of Nonnus in the 5th century BC

See also

★ Courtship

★ Civil union

★ Same-sex marriage

★ Registered partnership

★ Domestic partnership

★ Human sexual behavior