There has been a lot of talk lately concerning the gay community and the Proposition 8, in favor of banning same sex marriages and making them illegal in California. Celebrities like Brad Pitt and Steven Spielberg along with his wife, Kate Capshaw, have donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to support the campaign against the proposition.

But while gay marriages are still legal in California, a lot of celebrity couples that have been living…well, in sin and have always wanted to make their relationships official are making plans of going down the aisle with their same-sex better-half.

After talk-show host Ellen DeGeneres and her partner Portia de Rossi, as well as the "Star Trek" star George Takei and his longtime boyfriend Brad Altman got married this year, singer Melissa Etheridge is also taking up the possibly limited offer, as she plans to tie the knot with her longtime partner, actress Tammy Lynn Michaels.

In a recent interview for “Extra,” while at Universal City's Hard Rock Cafe, where she performed to launch Pinktober, the restaurant's breast cancer awareness program she was asked if she wants to tie the knot. The 47-year-old-singer replied “Yes. We have four children and we're trying to find the right time." The couple’s children are baby twins of only two years, Miller Steven and Johnnie Rose, who Tammy, 33, delivered in October 2006, as well as Etheridge’s children from a previous relationship with Julie Cypher. Her former life partner gave birth to daughter Bailey Jean and son Beckett, who were conceived via artificial insemination with the help of the couple’s of friend and rock legend David Crosby.

As Cypher changed her mind again and began reconsidering her sexuality, the couple publicly announced the split on September 19, 2000. She got married in 2004 with a man, Matthew Hale, while Etheridge kept her ways and exchanged vows in a 2003 Malibu commitment ceremony with her new partner, actress Tammy Lynn Michaels, best known for her work in Showtime drama “The L Word.”

Etheridge, who is not only famous for her songs, including hits "Come to My Window" and "I'm the Only One," but also a well-known gay rights activist, having come out publicly as a lesbian in January 1993 at the Triangle Ball, a gay/lesbian celebration of President Bill Clinton's first inauguration. She and her partner at the time, Julie Cypher, were actually the first celebrity couple to come out as gay and be opened about it.

In October 2004, Etheridge was diagnosed with breast cancer and underwent chemotherapy. She managed to fight the disease with the help of her supporting partner Tammy and a little thing called medical marijuana, as she confessed in an interview for Dateline NBC, held in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

Life hasn’t been easy for the singer, but she proved that she is courageous and strong, so she definitely deserves to finally be happy and at peace, despite Proposition 8.