Lesbian Love Stories: A Model Marriage

This month, SheWired’s sister publication Out Magazine features 23 queer love stories that will move you. Some might make you think while others may make you laugh, but these totally true love stories will definitely leave you feeling good.

Read about Laura Wilson and Tasha Tilberg’s whirlwind romance (with a cameo by Pink) in their story, “A Model Marriage.”

LAURA WILSON left, TALENT AGENT: It was only a month after we really started going out that I knew I loved Tasha. We were staying at a mutual friend’s house (the singer Pink, who was on tour at the time), and I remember being in her kitchen and saying “I love you.” I was the one who proposed, about eight months later. I knew I wanted to spend the rest of my life with her, but in January 2008, she had an accident where she severed a nerve in her hand, and I had to take her to the ER. I wasn’t allowed to go with her into the exam room because I wasn’t considered immediate family, and something just came over me, and I thought, I need to marry her. I don’t ever want to be separated from her again. Watching her walk down the hall with the nurse -- and without me -- was crazy. So I started planning the proposal, and I surprised her with a trip to Mexico for Valentine’s Day. Tasha said yes immediately. We were both ready. We had already each done the bad relationship thing before we met each other. She was really ready. I think she asked me to marry her the night we first slept together [laughs].

TASHA TILBERG, MODEL/MUSICIAN: We first met at this club, Nirvana, in Los Angeles. I wasn’t available because I was dealing with other things in my life, but she was talking to a friend of mine, and I remember that she had the most beautiful eyes. We didn’t meet again for a year and a half—this time it was in New York. After that, we spent all our time together -- I was instantly totally into her. She is really, really funny and a great listener and an amazing mathematician, which is the complete opposite of me. She can do the bills and figures out the tip at dinner -- I’m ridiculously bad at that -- so she comes in handy. When she flew me down to Mexico for Valentine’s Day in 2008, I had no idea she was going to propose. I was like, “This is incredible. Look at those sea turtles. Wait, you’re proposing? What?” I was just blown away. We got legally hitched in Canada in April 2009, just the two of us and a wedding officiant. Then, a month later, we had a big wedding with friends and family in L.A. I really like the whole idea of being connected, especially in a legal way. It makes me feel safe.

Photography by Cass Bird

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