I campaigned for marriage equality but the entire time I felt like I had a dirty secret
15 November , 2017, 10am: I’m sitting in a corporate boardroom booked by the office queers so we could be together for the postal survey results. The room is heavy with anxiety and everyone is on edge unable to breath with much ease. I hold the hand next to me tightly as the room is fed the results – 61.6% yes – we all erupt with tears, hugs and cheers.
We’d just spent the past few years battling the government to stop them from taking our right to marry to the polls and when we finally thought we’d won it was ripped away with this non-binding postal survey. Despite the defeat, as always, we got back up and spent the months leading up to 15 November having constant conversations, rallying, calling strangers and family members and watching on as the far-right were given a platform to exercise their “freedom of speech”, which ultimately did damage to so many of us in the community.
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