Facebook Co-Founder Chris Hughes Engaged To Sean Eldridge

Chris Hughes, co-founder of Facebook and founder of Jumo.com, is engaged to Sean Eldridge, political director for Freedom To Marry.

According to the New York Post, Eldridge shared the news during a Freedom To Marry reception held at the couple's SoHo apartment. In attendance were guests including Cory Booker, Ivanka Trump, and Eric Schneiderman.

The New York Post writes,

The two decided to make their longtime relationship legal on New Year's Eve. "We were in Thailand in a hotel room in the north. We were delayed after two days in the snowstorm and Chris got down on one knee and proposed. It was very traditional and very sweet," Eldridge told us. "We've been together for five years now."

They have yet to set a date, and Eldridge said they'll try to wait until gay marriage is legal in New York.

Eldridge told the Post the couple hopes to wed "as soon as possible," in "the next year or two for sure."

Hughes tweeted the news to his over 6,000 followers on Saturday morning.

"My partner Sean Eldridge and I got engaged a couple weeks ago! We're excited :) (apparently this is newsworthy http://bit.ly/gfCw5g )," he wrote, with a link to the New York Post's piece.

Comments

[Patrick McGuire]

10:13 PM on 01/17/2011

congrats!

[redmaple]

08:20 PM on 01/17/2011

But I thought he was gay.

[MrEguy]

08:36 PM on 01/21/2011

and you were correct.

[tedsingingfox]

07:25 PM on 01/17/2011

Huge congratulations. So eager to hear about the wedding when it happens. This IS newsworthy for an old queen like me. LOL

[Ioan Lightoller]

03:06 PM on 01/17/2011

Congratulations. I married my sweetie in Canada in 2007 and it is the best thing I ever did.

[John Crane]

01:37 PM on 01/17/2011

Five years? Big deal. Try twenty-five.

[flatus]

12:22 PM on 01/17/2011

Two words of advice: ironclad pre-nup

[5TeeOneVee]

10:51 AM on 01/17/2011

wait, i saw the movie, i thought he was with a hot asian chick!

[mukTech]

03:10 PM on 01/17/2011

That's Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO, and the other co-founder

[minimii]

02:05 AM on 01/17/2011

Why is this news? Facebook? Gay? Marriage? Famous guests? What? I don't know this guy, never heard of. Simply just PR stunt.

[Anaxamenes]

02:48 AM on 01/17/2011

Because you haven't heard of someone, automatically makes them not newsworthy?

[rafaelrobyns]

08:45 AM on 01/17/2011

You don't use minimii as your frame of reference?

[Albert Westpy]

06:31 AM on 01/17/2011

Why did you read it ?

[Pundit Commentator]

01:38 AM on 01/17/2011

What a sweet story. Caught Chris' interview with Colbert. Stand up guy.

He turned away from Facebook to work on the Obama campaign and now a non-profit version of FB that links you to charities you can observe and support.

Compare that to Zuckerberg's PR dollars for New Jersey.

[AllieGoogle]

08:57 AM on 01/17/2011

You mean after Zuckerberg made him a very wealthy man.

Only liberals can find fault with someone giving away millions.

[RockLauren]

03:15 PM on 01/17/2011

Ummm. He was a partner in the formation of Facebook. Mark Zuckerberg didn't just "give" him his $500 million net worth. He earned it the same way the rest of the team did.

[SionShankel]

12:32 AM on 01/17/2011

Congratulations, we need more families that do not take marriage for granted like straights tend too.

[AllieGoogle]

08:57 AM on 01/17/2011

Blanket statements and stereotypes about heterosexuals is no better than ones about homosexuals.

[Ioan Lightoller]

03:08 PM on 01/17/2011

People that are only now getting married under marriage equality will likely not take their marriage for granted. Straights DO tend to take their marriage and the protections and benefits it bestows for common.

[mukTech]

03:13 PM on 01/17/2011

Exactly!!

[martiniandabotoxchaser]

12:15 PM on 01/17/2011

That is an inflammatory and prejudiced statement.  I am a straight person who works in civil rights...my friends and I don't take anything for granted....

[SionShankel]

03:34 PM on 01/17/2011

Statistics do not support your idea.

[Marcus Langford]

12:24 AM on 01/17/2011

Despite seeing the hit movie 'Social Network' I still haven't put together the fact that Facebook indeed had a co-founder. I surely didn't know he was gay but who cares about that these days? If a guy can help his friend become a young multi-billionaire, then what he does behind closed doors is pretty irrelevant-I just know that I need a friend like that who can tap into my billion dollar potential. Ha!

[Pundit Commentator]

01:47 AM on 01/17/2011

Check out Chris' interview with Colbert last week.

http://www.colbertnation.com/home

[happyfella73]

12:23 PM on 01/17/2011

I am so tired of the "behind closed doors" mentality. Our fundamental rights are at issue. Rights that are afforded others because of an expression of love, not sex. This fascination with our sexual habits is completely offpoint.

[JShankel]

12:20 AM on 01/17/2011

Safety tip: when the minister asks "do you take this man to be your lawfully wedded husband," don't launch into a minute-long self-important monologue and then ask if you've answered his condescending question adequately.  Learned THAT one the hard way!

[Ioan Lightoller]

03:09 PM on 01/17/2011

Yep. That is why my husband and I did our own vows.

[JShankel]

03:40 PM on 01/17/2011

I thought going with a bigtime Hollywood writer like Aaron Sorkin would make our vows pop, but the only thing popping was Sorkin.  Definitely going with Nora Ephron next time.  Or maybe David Mamet.

[sf omega man]

12:20 AM on 01/17/2011

Awesome! But interesting that the cofounder of Facebook decided share the new via a tweet vs. a Status Update.

[mukTech]

03:19 PM on 01/17/2011

Maybe there was a status update to his friends, you just aren't his friend on FB

[IsotelusMaximus]

11:06 PM on 01/16/2011

Hope there's a prenup!

[hypnotoad72]

09:33 AM on 01/17/2011

Hope for a society that values people over material goods in the first place. 

[freethinking moderate]

10:47 PM on 01/16/2011

I'm more offended that he he helped start Facebook than for his gay marriage.

[Pundit Commentator]

01:41 AM on 01/17/2011

He has since started a non profit version that helps you keep track of your favourite charities. Check out his interview with Colbert last week.

[Pundit Commentator]

01:54 AM on 01/17/2011

http://www.colbertnation.com/home