Love knows no legal boundaries.

Teresa Xu and Li TingTing, a lesbian couple, held a simple, unofficial ceremony in Beijing on Thursday to make a push for same-sex marriage legalization in China.

Gay marriage is currently not legal in China, and homosexuality is still viewed as a taboo by many Chinese people. Until 2001, being gay was considered a mental illness by the national Chinese psychiatric association. Li and Xu's ceremony is a political one rather than a legal one, meant to make a stand for same-sex marriage.

This follows the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling last week that struck down gay marriage bans as unconstitutional, a decision widely seen as a huge step forward for the LGBT movement.

Li is an activist and was recently taken into custody by the Chinese government in March because she had been planning to hand out stickers that called on the police to take further actions against sexual harassment. She was arrested with four other feminist activists in Beijing on International Women's Day.