Before I say “I do”…
NIC CROSARA examines the marriage inequalities that face LGBTQI couples
NIC CROSARA
Your mid-20s are a strange time.Some friends are getting married, rarely going out, and even having (planned!) babies. Others have an abundant social life and think settling down means saying farewell to freedom. The house plant wilting next to me as I type this makes me question my ability to keep a small human alive. However, since meeting my person at 21, marriage became something I started to imagine as a possibility in my not too distant future. Two years later, when my partner bent the knee and I squealed “yes”, we knew we’d be in for a long engagement. After all, we were two broke graduates. What we didn’t realise was that we couldn’t get married unless I was willing to do so under a binary gender.