ERIN Dunne is young, vibrant, talented, intelligent and thought-ful. So why does she feel like a second-class citizen?
The 21-year-old fine art student, who hails from a cattle property in Duaringa, was just 17 and the school captain at Rockhampton’s The Cathedral College when she came out as gay. And she says that the Australian Government’s refusal to sanction gay marriage cuts deep into her psyche.
“It reinforces that society treats me as different and not worthy of the rights that others take for granted,” she said yesterday.
“You never forget that.”
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