Why does Coronation Street keep exploding its lesbians?

First Maddie and Sophie. Now Rana and Kate. Must every lesbian couple in Corrie meet a violent end?I grew up watching Coronation Street with my family, breathing in sharply whenever Sophie Webster came on screen. This was 2014, and as the romance between do-gooder Sophie and her runaway love-interest Maddie grew, I’d plan in my head how to say that I was like them. Then, on the night of a mammoth fire, Maddie was hit by a huge explosion from the Builder’s Yard on her way to meet Soph