After more than a decade,the Australian Marriage Equality campaign is one of the most well-honed of its kind, bringing together gay and straight supporters and targeting politicians. Now success looks like it will ultimately depend on a plebiscite of all voters. A special report by Brigid Delaney In a packed hall on a humid day in Ipswich, and Ivan Hinton-Teoh,deputy director of Australian Marriage Equality (AME), tells his chronicle. How he fell in fancy with, or proposed to and married his sweetheart. How he had found the one he wanted to be with for the rest of his life.
He explains how his grandmother held gay people in disdain until the moment she discovered her grandson was gay. Within months Ivan married Chris in a commitment ceremony attended by his joyous Nan,his strongest champion to the stop.
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Source: theguardian.com