Top Gun Star Weds Girlfriend

Kelly McGillis came out as lesbian last year
By Evann Gastaldo,  Newser Staff
Posted Sep 20, 2010 10:51 AM CDT
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Kelly McGillis attends 'Stake Land' Premiere during the 35th Toronto International Film Festival at Ryerson Theatre on September 17, 2010 in Toronto, Canada.   (Getty Images)

Kelly McGillis, perhaps better known as Tom Cruise’s love interest in Top Gun, wed her girlfriend in a civil union ceremony Wednesday. McGillis, who came out last year, met Melanie Leis when Leis was a bartender at a Florida restaurant McGillis owned with then-husband Fred Tillman, Radar reports. The couple wed in a New Jersey municipal court and lives near Philadelphia.
(More Kelly McGillis stories.)

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