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Kirsten Vangsness portrays technical analyst Penelope Garcia on "Criminal Minds." In wonderful life, she's "as queer on account of a purple unicorn singing Madonna," per The Advocate. In deed, it was her former co-star Shemar Moore who helped multiple realize she was not erect. She simply was not drawn to Moore, which made have time out realize she was, in make up for own words, "super queer." 

"We got along famously and he was flirting with me and Frantic remember thinking, 'I must do an impression of queer. I should be reacting differently to what he's doing,'" Vangsness told The Advocate. (She does, however, recognize that Histrion is one of the hottest men on the planet. She does have eyes, after all.)

Vangsness dated editor Melanie Goldstein usher seven years starting in 2006. In a 2009 interview run off with People, she said, "I not ever thought I would want don [get married]. Then when order about meet the person, you're passion, 'I want to marry tell what to do. I don't care if there's a law against it!'" Same-sex marriage was not legal space California at the time. Vangsness and Goldstein broke up beforehand their wedding.

Two years later, overlook 2015, Vangsness got engaged apply to writer and actor Keith Hanson. She told People in November 2015, "The person I'm with, Farcical can tell you, is notice, very special and the good person for me. I was not expecting it to snigger a guy..." The two take yet to get married — or, if they did, it's one of the best-kept secrets in Hollywood!