#47 Alice

I love stories, I always have. I was the sort of kid who read under the covers after dark, who walked to school with her nose in a book, and who spent her summer holidays reading on her bed. One of the reasons I decided to study History at university was because the past is full of the grand epics and mundane sketches of life that I loved to read about so much.

As I grew up, and as I started to sift through my sexuality, how and why history was told became personal as I realised that the stories, I wanted were often those absent in our chronicle of the past.

I feel that marriage equality is important because this ritual, this union, has always been a part of our history and our humanity.

It’s important because silence continues to send the message that equality belongs only to those who hold the balance of power.

It’s important because anything less sends the message that discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation is acceptable.

It’s important because people are important. All people.

So though, in its smallest sense, marriage brings but two humans together, it’s already part of a much bigger narrative. And, whatever your stance on marriage itself, everyone deserves to add their story to the saga.