Country music star Beccy Cole has revealed her plans to marry her gay partner in an Australian Story exclusive.
Cole and her partner, cabaret singer Libby O’Donovan, will marry as soon as the law is changed to allow same-sex marriage.
The couple is closely following the debate over a proposed plebiscite on the issue and will be adding their voices to the campaign for marriage equality.
“I’ve never wanted to be political or a flag-waver, but when it’s something that you really believe in, and something that affects you directly and you can see it affecting people within your community, then I think there is a time to stand up and say, ‘come on, let’s get this right,” Cole told Australian Story.
Winner of nine Golden Guitar awards, Beccy Cole popped the question at O’Donovan’s 40th birthday party.
“There obviously have been some baby steps in this country towards equality. If they let us, do you want to?” she proposed in January.
A gob-smacked O’Donovan broke down in tears before replying, “yes.”
In an episode titled, “When Beccy Met Libby”, the popular singer describes how she met O’Donovan at a gay pride event in Adelaide, just months after outing herself as a gay woman on Australian Story in 2012.
“I don’t know whether you call it ‘love at first sight’ or what it is, but I knew I was safe, I knew I was home, I knew this was it and I haven’t doubted it for a second ever since.”
With their two children from earlier relationships, they set up a blended home in the Adelaide hills, “sort of like a big gay Brady Bunch.”
If same-sex marriage is legalised, the couple hopes their marriage ceremony can be performed by Libby O’Donovan’s parents, both of whom are Anglican Ministers.
“Libby has been brought up as a Christian. I’m pleased that she wants God to be involved in her marriage. I would love to be able to do that,” her father Rev. Bart O’Donovan said.
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