This is so, so important and courageous. In a country where even a former Deputy Prime Minister has been jailed in the last decade for sodomy, there needs to be messages like this so there can be hope. So that one day there can be a possibility of a normal and happy life for all the gay and lesbian people in Malaysia now denied it.
Here is Gabrielle – outed in the media, attempting suicide, friends with people who are victims of ‘corrective rape’… but ultimately a story of a family who changed their mind and a brave women who struggled on to something better.
This story is exactly why need marriage equality; the lack of role models, the lack of people to talk to is devastating.
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