Queer Arts & Entertainment, Celesbian Culture

Holland Taylor’s Heartfelt Speech Steals the Show at Sarah Paulson’s Walk of Fame Ceremony

December 4, 2025

From tender hand-holding to a tear-jerking speech, the couple reminded everyone why they’re Hollywood’s favorite queer love story.

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Sarah Paulson has officially joined Hollywood’s most exclusive sidewalk club, receiving her star on the Walk of Fame this week, but if we’re being honest, the real headliner was Holland Taylor turning the mic into a swoon-worthy love letter.

The longtime couple, together since 2015 and forever the internet’s favorite age-gap sapphic duo, showed up hand-in-hand, looking like the dictionary definition of “mutual admiration.” And then Taylor opened her speech, and suddenly every lesbian on social media was horizontal.

“Sarah, the actress, is first of all a wild creature in the animal kingdom. Warm-blooded, instinctive, mysterious,” Taylor began, proving once again she could read the back of a cereal box and still make us cry. Then she added, “And Sarah is dangerous—not like a snake, more like a mongoose,” which is honestly the most unexpectedly romantic animal comparison we’ve ever heard.

Taylor praised Paulson’s “commitment to truth,” her ability to find the messy heart of every character, and her secret superpower: “her own humanity.” She went on, “Her acting is as honest as our faith and as complicated as chemistry… she’s not deceiving us — she is practicing magic.”

Meanwhile, Paulson—the warm-blooded mongoose that she is—wiped away tears as Taylor listed the qualities that make her not just a phenomenal actor, but a deeply “loving and loyal person who is safety itself.”

And then came the line that made sapphics collectively hit the floor:

“In case she doesn’t know it, she has a permanent shining star on my street. I love you, darling.”

Be honest: you felt that in your chest.

Though they’ve weathered a decade of public intrigue over their 32-year age gap, both Paulson and Taylor have made it clear they’re unbothered by the commentary. As Paulson once said, “If anyone wants to spend any time thinking I’m strange for loving the most spectacular person on the planet, that’s their problem.”

This week’s ceremony only reinforced what fans have always known: these two are wildly in love, wildly talented, and wildly good at making the rest of us feel like extras in their rom-com.

And yes, the photos of Holland holding Sarah’s hand while she cried? The adoring looks? The inside-jokey laughter caught by photographers? Sapphic culture has been fed well.

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