The Guardian Australia recently held a special conference about same-sex marriage called ‘Why Knot‘.
It featured a progressive panel of speakers and a like-minded audience, all of whom “saw marriage equality as vital to LGBTI people’s dignity”.
The panel featured Australian Marriage Equality director Jeremy Croome, Labor Party leader Bill Shorten, Greens leader Richard Di Natale, former NSW premier Kristina Keneally, and many more.
But one of the speakers who managed to blow the audience away was 16-year-old Ally Hocking Howe. Howe is the daughter of two lesbian mothers, and spoke of her horror when she saw the Catholic ‘Don’t Mess with Marriage‘ pamphlets.
“My name is Ally, I am 16 years old, a child of two lesbian mums, and I am a victim of deprivation and unjustified false love.[..] If only my development hadn’t been so tampered with, and my family so artificially created, then maybe I could be a child equal to my peers.[…] That is what I’m meant to believe about myself.”
Her speech is beautiful and enigmatic, and delivered with an air of confidence that makes her personality shine:
Ally Hocking Howe, 16: “I am a child of two lesbian mums”
“My name is Ally, I am 16 years old, a child of two lesbian mums, and I am a victim of deprivation and unjustified false love [..] If only my development hadn’t been so tampered with, and my family so artificially created, then maybe I could be a child equal to my peers”… “That is what I’m meant to believe about myself”
Posted by Guardian Australia on Friday, 1 April 2016
Ally: you are incredible. To Ally’s mums: you did a bloody excellent job raising her (but we’re sure you already knew that).
Source: Guardian Australia.
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