#17 Valerie and Irene

Valerie and I have known each other for about two minutes. It was cliché; we fell in love on the second date. For her it was the moment I offered to dink her across town on the back of my bike. For me it was how easily she competed to be the loudest woman in the room; there were only two of us. In some ways we feel like the epitome of the lesbian stereotype, but it doesn’t matter. She is my home, and I am hers.

Achieving marriage equality is about normalcy. We don’t care about the institution of “marriage”, with its historical core in the church. Despite this, we want the same rights and treatment as our “straight” friends and family. To us it is so obvious that if two people love, respect, and support each other they should be able to have that recognised through marriage. Irene and I love each other and one day we will marry. We just hope it’s sooner rather than later.