 Barrowman is openly gay : he met his husband , Scott Gill , during a production of Rope at the Chichester Festival Theatre in 1993 , after Gill came to see Barrowman in the play . The couple have houses in London , England ; Cardiff , Wales ; and Palm Springs , California . Barrowman and Gill entered into a civil partnership on 27 December 2006 . A small ceremony was held in Cardiff with friends and family , with the cast of Torchwood and executive producer Russell T Davies as guests . The pair were legally married in the state of California on 2 July 2013 , following the United States Supreme Court 's decision to deny an appeal to overturning California Proposition 8 in Hollingsworth v. Perry . 
