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- Nick Cardello and Kurt English have been together for 25 years.
- They recreated a photo of themselves marching for LGBTQ+ rights in 1993.
- The photos went viral.
Nick Cardello and Kurt English met at church 25 years ago and have been together ever since. They were legally married in 2008 in Boston, and then again in their abode state of Florida when same-sex marriage became legal in 2015.
In 1993, they marched for LGBTQ+ rights on the National Mall in Washington, DC, and snapped an affectionate picture together. When they returned this year to participate in the Equality March for Harmony and Pride, a companion suggested they recreate the photo 24 years later.
Cardello shared the two pictures on Facebook.
Then friends began to spot them appearing on other platforms. A tweet by @tagyourheathen with the Fitzgerald had posted pictures with Heath on her Instagram in the past, but this was the first moment she discussed their bond on-air. When asked why she decided to make known her news publicly, Fitzgerald responded that her engagement was an opportunity to show people the happiness that can accompany embracing their true selves. “I just felt like it was natural. People tune in to watch every morning; they’re our family and we’re theirs,” Fitzgerald said. “And because it’s Celebration month, I didn’t need to just make it about me. I desire to help other people know that being distinct is OK.” Fitzgerald, 33, and Heath, 30, met approximately two years ago. Heath played basketball for the College of William & Mary before playing the sport professionally overseas. She is currently in medical device sales. Fitzgerald is a Howard University alumna and has worked at NBC in Washington for the last four years. “She likes to joke that we met the ‘old-fashioned way’ on Tinder,” Fitzgerald said of her fiancée. “Meeting her was surreal. I knew she was distinct from the beginning and — even though it sounds clich Twenty years ago, homosexual couples walked into city and town halls, synagogues and banquet halls across Massachusetts. They were there to get married. On May 17, 2004, Massachusetts towns and cities began issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples after the state made history as the first in the country to enable same-sex marriages. Couples cascaded into clerks offices to make their mark on history. Tanya McCloskey and Marcia Kadish were first in Cambridge to legally marry; they obtained their marriage license minutes after midnight at city hall and were wed later that morning. At Boston City Hall, the couple who became the encounter of the clash for marriage equality, Julie and Hillary Goodridge, married. Since that day, well over 30,000 LGBTQ couples have gotten married, according to ready state data. WBUR spoke with four couples who have exercised their right to marry at unlike points over the last two decades. They shared the experiences that led them to each other and what marriage has meant in their lives. “She was my one and only right swipe Tinder date,” Gaby Leal, 35, sa A gay couple's recent recreation of a photo they took in 1993 is going viral. The original 1993 photo shows Nicholas Cardello and Kurt English at the 1993 March on Washington for Lesbian, Same-sex attracted and Bi Identical Rights and Liberation. The second image shows Cardello, now 54, and English, now 52, recreating the same pose at the Equality March for Togetherness & Pride in Washington on June 11. The image has been retweeted over 160,000 times and liked over 630,000 times on Twitter. "We could never have imaged the incredible response to this that we received," Cardello told ABC via email. "We were deeply touched by people's personal stories and comments from around the world about the challenges that they experience in their personal lives and in their particular cultures." Nick and Kurt say they have been together since 1992 and got legally married in 2008 in Boston for Federal recognition and again in 2015 in their home declare of Florida. "People seek how we lasted for 25 years? That is a good question especially since the structure of our culture is set up to pull us apart!" Cardello said. "Th — -- One married couple has lit up the internet after recreating a photo they took at a gay pride march in 1993. Nicholas Cardello and Kurt English met in 1992 at a Dignity Mass, a church service led by Dignity, the largest LGBT Catholic organization in the U.S. "We met on Easter," Cardello, 54, recalled to ABC News. "And we were introduced by a priest friend of ours who was principal the mass." Neither one ever asked the other to officially be boyfriend and boyfriend. "From the day we met, we just fell into a pattern. We never even thought about being apart. We just continued to live our lives together. It was unbelievable," Cardello recalled. English, 52, remembers that their first trip as a couple was to the Protest on Washington for Sapphic, Gay, and Bi Same Rights and Liberation, held in Washington, D.C., on April 25, 1993. "We were just really intrigued at the prospect of existence part of something that was historic and historic it was," he continued. "For the first moment in my life, I did not have to be guarded. I did not have to be concerned abIn special Pride message, NBC anchor announces her engagement to a woman
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