16 iconic same-sex couples through history.

Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas - AP Photo

Wherever and whenever LGBT people have lived, they have loved.

Whether they found romance in ancient Egypt or a 1920s salon, the history of queer people and their lovers is rich with devotion, betrayal, and activism. Throughout history, same-sex couples have managed to fall in and out of love just as clumsily as anyone else.