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Gay Couple Reenacts LGBT March Photo 24 Years Later

Nicholas Cardello and Kurt English reenacted the photo at the recent Equality March in D.C.

The Internet has lost its mind over an adorable gay couple who reenacted a photo from their first LGBT Pride march together over two decades ago.

Nicholas Cardello

The viral image shows Nicholas Cardello and Kurt English at two different equality marches in Washington D.C., with the first being at the March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay, and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation in 1993 and the second from the recent Equality March.

The photos started circulating online earlier this week and have left hundreds of thousands swooning over the married couple's relationship, with one reddit user writing that their "cuteness is overflowing."

Nicholas Cardello

Cardello and English first met in 1992, a year before they would march on Washington together. In the years since, Pride marches have remained an important part of their relationship, which Cardello attributes to their joint commitment to both "promote positive change in society" and to show thanks to "all those who came before us and paved the way for the rights we have today."

The couple married in Boston in 2008 and would later marry a second time in their native Florida in 2015 after the passage of marriage equality nationwide.

Nicholas Cardello

While the pair celebrates all the progress that's been made since they first started marching, they recognize that there's still a lot of work to be done.

"In spite of these amazing successes, there [still] exists no federal or state workplace protections for LGBTQ individuals," Cardello told Mashable. He added that suicide is a "real threat for LGBTQ youth" and that the "proliferation of Religious Freedom Restoration Act laws" threatens all the "hard won gains" the community has made.

Nicholas Cardello

Of their photo's popularity, which has garnered over 400,000 likes and 100,000 shares, the couple says it demonstrates the importance of visibility in the fight for full equality.

"We need to get more images like this out there so the youth today can have positive role models," said Cardello, noting that there needs to be more photos of LGBT couples "just being couples."

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