"Let Love Live" The Story Behind Karl & Erry

Kirstie Nicole
Jul 19
4 min read

Karl and Erry sharing their love story with She Comes With Baggage Media

Editor's Note: There are certain love stories that stay with you long after the conversation ends. Not because they are perfect, extraordinary, or designed for social media, but because they remind you that love is still one of the most courageous things a person can choose. This article is a reminder that the deepest partnerships are built through trust, vulnerability, growth, and the willingness to experience life alongside another human being.

Before thousands of people knew them as SoKARL&ERRY, they were simply two people trying to imagine a future they had never actually seen.

They fell in love quickly, but falling in love was only the beginning. As Caribbean immigrants entering a same-sex relationship, they found themselves stepping into territory that felt almost entirely unwritten. They searched for examples of couples who looked like them, sounded like them, shared their culture, honored their ambitions, and loved openly without apology.

"We saw no one who looked or talked like us," they shared. "An out and proud, smart and successful, Black and queer, monogamous, Caribbean-immigrant couple living their best life, one we could dream of having."

So they stopped searching. Instead of waiting for someone else to show them what was possible, they decided to become that possibility themselves. "Rather than looking externally," they said, "we decided to let love live in this lifetime and figure it out together."

"Owning our own stories is the best tool we have to counter ignorance, raise cultural awareness, and increase not just visibility, but also our collective upward mobility," they shared. They have watched Caribbean culture steadily move further into mainstream conversations and believe meaningful progress is happening, even if there is still a long road ahead before every queer Caribbean person feels completely safe to live openly.

"At some point in our marriage, we were both at, 'Welp... it's you and me forever and eons after that. You cool with that?'"

"'Yeah,' the other answered. 'I'm good with that.'" They both laughed as they remembered it. "It felt like we had nothing to lose."

That conversation says so much about who Karl and Erry are. Even when they're talking about forever, they do it with humor, warmth, and a familiarity that makes you smile. Beneath the laughter is a quiet confidence in the life they've created together. It's the kind of love that isn't measured by one defining moment, but by countless moments of choosing to dream together, create together, and keep building a future that reflects who they are and the life they want to create.

Karl and Erry know that stories have the power to move people in ways arguments rarely can, and that every honest chapter they share leaves the door open for another person or family to write a different ending of their own. "Storytelling is art, and art is expression," they explained. "It just so happens that we're both madly-in-love artists."

Every photograph, conversation, and shared memory becomes another page in a narrative they never inherited. They understand that people arrive on their platform looking for more than beautiful travel videos or snapshots of married life. Many are searching for permission to imagine a future that once felt impossible.

"We know that people are looking for a new narrative," they said. "We tell our story because it's the first time this is happening."

They also believe lasting love demands radical honesty. "The complete and total release of even your scariest baggage, if done with the right person, can be a freeing experience." Reminding us that real love does not ask someone to arrive without baggage. It asks if two people are willing to unpack it together. Karl and Erry's story is shaped by experiences that could have hardened them. Erry left Jamaica in pursuit of safety. Karl navigated a Mormon upbringing while walking beside his mother's battle with multiple sclerosis.

"Whether it was Erry leaving Jamaica for his safety or Karl navigating a Mormon upbringing and his mother's health journey, our past has given us an untamable sense of pride," they reflected. "We know where we come from and where we're trying to go."

Instead of allowing those experiences to divide them, they transformed them into empathy. They became what they describe as "a haven for each other when the rest of the world feels at times uncertain." There is tremendous beauty in that phrase because it reframes partnership entirely. Home is no longer a place. Home becomes a person who knows every chapter of your story and stays anyway.

Their definition of love is surprisingly simple, yet profoundly moving. After nearly eight years together, they measure love by one question: "After spending twenty-four hours together, would you choose to do it all again tomorrow? " Then stretch that question further. Would you choose them for another year? Another decade? An eternity? "If the answer is yes," they say, "claim it and make it yours. Take good care of it, because it's so precious." To them, love is never passive. It is a daily decision to continue choosing one another, even when life becomes difficult.

"Love is both a feeling and a choice, but it is always work. It will never work if you marchin' pon a one-way street, darling." It is difficult to imagine a more fitting description of intimacy. To be fully known without needing to hide the parts of yourself you fear might make someone leave is one of the greatest gifts another human being can offer.

We asked what advice would you give to other queer couples, who are looking to build trust and a long term partnership? They responded "The only rule is to be a good person. Be good to yourself, to those you love, and all around you. Pitit, love is already complicated so don’t make it more complicated then it already is."

Today, they continue building that life together through SKE Studios, their creative agency and production company, while remaining focused on creating experiences rather than simply creating content. They speak often about good people, good vibrations, beautiful memories, and living fully alongside the people they love. Success, for them, has never been measured solely by numbers or opportunities. It is measured by choosing each other while building something meaningful together.

"Let Love Live" The Story Behind Karl & Erry

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