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Lesbian Couple Kiss in Front of 'Hate Preachers' at South Carolina Pride

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Newsweek.Unwilling to let the hate go unchallenged, May and Saint decided to kiss in front of the hate preachers and have their friend, Alie Strehl (@potatecreates on Instagram), take a photo."The hate preachers just kind of awkwardly looked away.

They don't know how to react when they see queer and trans love, but the best part was that other people started doing it too and taking pictures in front of the hate preachers too," May said.The photo carries a deeper meaning for the couple, both of whom are trans women who transitioned later in life.Saint, 33, told Newsweek that both she and May put off their transitions for years due to fear, despite knowing they were trans."We were afraid of what people would say about us, if people would still love us, and also afraid that we would go to hell since we were both Christian for a large majority of our lives.

We both nearly took our own lives because of it. For us, transition was a necessity and if we had not decided to transition, neither of us would still be alive today," she said.This commitment to self-acceptance and living authentically transformed both their lives and inspired them to become advocates for trans joy by creating content on TikTok, where they met."We both realized that the most powerful weapon we have against the hate that trans people are facing is genuine love and authentic joy," Saint told Newsweek.Their decision to kiss in front of the preachers was not just an act of defiance, but a message to the world. "The most important thing that people like us need to see in the world today is that our love is more powerful than their hate," Saint said.Strehl's photo went viral on Reddit.

At the time of writing, May's post has received 52,000 upvotes and over 6,000 comments—both supportive and hateful."Some people hate it and were really loud about it," May said, adding that she believed most of the comments were other Reddit users writing homophobic or transphobic things."But also people were really.

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