The Bachelor‘s Megan & Tiffany – who are now allowed to be referred to by their full names, Megan Leto Marx and Tiffany James – are obviously the best thing to come out of the hetero show.
The pair famously fell in love with each other instead of Bachie Richie Strahan, and made worldwide headlines when they confirmed their relationship in October.
2016. It’s a time, I tell ya.
The really cool thing here – besides the fact that both girls seem to be genuinely stoked with each other, which is always nice in a relationship – is that that their relationship is helping bring more visibility to same-sex couples in Australia, which in turn normalises queer experiences and will hopefully abet the effort to overturn the discriminatory laws against LGBTQIA people.
Megan + Tiffany have posted a series of v. v. cute posts in the last 24-hours, offering a glimpse into their relationship and raising awareness of the discrimination faced by queer people in Australia every day.
“If you took the whole same-sex ‘issue’ out of our relationship, it would still be untraditional. We ordinate our own life and love terms, and somehow it works,” wrote Megan.
Tiffany quoted America author Marie Lu, but her words were obviously directed at Megan and goddamn it’s cute.
“You drive me insane…You’re the scariest, most clever, bravest person I know, and sometimes I can’t catch my breath because I’m trying so hard to keep up. There will never be another like you. You realise that, don’t you? Billions of people will come and go in this world, but there will never be another like you.”
In a post last week, Megan used her growing fame to highlight Australia’s outdated marriage equality laws and called on the country to get its act together.
I’ve been wanting my story with Tiffany to “pleasantly” and without force try to help normalise same-sex relationships and desires. Unfortunately, the more stories I hear and people I talk to, the more vividly I see the social, political and mental oppression the Australian government has inflicted on sexual minorities with a law created by privileged white men, a very long time ago.
It was 1902 when women in Australia were granted the right to vote and 1962 before Aboriginal people were granted this same right. Before this, voting essentially was a privilege made and utilised by white men. “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights”, is not an opinion or some quote you put on a fucking fridge magnet- it’s a moral obligation- and the first article point in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was proclaimed by the UN and signed by Australia in 1948.
Sixty eight years later our liberal, secular democracy upholds an outdated and oppressive law that states you cannot marry who you love if it is out of the script of what is “traditional”. Voting was made for white men- and we have changed the law despite its inception. Why can’t we do the same with marriage?
If you are a man, and you find the idea of being with another man sexually disgusting, I guess the answer is to not fuck another dude, instead of using political and social means to instil personal inclinations on minorities with different sexual agendas.
Our beautiful country has become an embarrassment to me, as I believe it has allowed religious sentiments to be involved where they should not be- in politics. Good on you Aus, for supporting programs that help young people deal with mental health issues arising from being part of sexual minorities, but maybe ceasing social and political oppression would reduce mental health struggles in the first place.
I’m not wanting to get married any time soon, nor do I have a vendetta against men or those who hold religious values. My cause is only one that supports human rights for ALL humans. Come on Australia, quit the fucking around.
Three goddamn cheers to that.
Photo: Instagram / Megan Leto Marx.
