#VoteWithUs Videos that mention choice as a theme are shown here.
Ciaran shares his personal experience of growing up gay in an honest and forthright manner. His earnest wish is for people to bear in mind the trauma that LGBT youth have suffered in their lives and how a yes vote will go a long way to alleviating that disadvantage.
Aoife McCullough is from Co Meath and in her video talks about the debates which this referendum has prompted within her family. Aoife has a gay sister and describes how their mother had a strongly traditional view of marriage as being between a man and a woman. Like many families across Ireland, the referendum has prompted Aoife and her family …
Anthony and Barry are a couple who have been in a civil partnership for eight years. They make a strong and passionate case for a YES vote on Friday and for how monumentally significant the change would be to their family. “A yes vote will improve our lives in so many ways. It won’t impact on anyone else – if …
Dave Bennett is a personal trainer from Greystones, Co. Wicklow. He’s voting YES on May 22nd as for him it’s easy – he thinks everyone should have the same chance at happiness. “Everybody deserves an equal shot at happiness – i.e. to get married one day, to go further on and have kids one day, to have a family. It’s …
Ciarán is voting yes to marriage equality, because he grew up in an Ireland where marriage was only something that happened between a man and a woman. This led him to believe my whole life that marriage was not for him. He tells us that he’s since come to realise that the definition of marriage can be changed with this …
Kritika Ashok, director of myartgallery.ie, and Richard Jackson, a renewable energy engineer, are a couple and are eagerly looking forward to voting Yes on May 22nd. This will be Kritika’s first vote as an Irish citizen, and one that she’s proud to cast to help realise the kind of country she wants for her children and for all of us. …
Mark is a 23 year old student from Dundrum in Dublin. He is motivated to vote YES on behalf of his friend and asks others to join him in supporting the equal rights of LGBT people in Ireland. “I always would have been a supporter of equal marriage but I never really thought about why. After my friend came out, …
Nils is 23 and a recent graduate of UCD. He makes the point that though, like him, you may not be directly affected by the outcome of the referendum, you are voting for the equality of your friends, family and thousands of Irish people. “You have to think of the many homosexual people in this country whose lives will be …
Tracey Kaplan and her friend Susie are American citizens who both live in San Francisco. Tracey spent some time in Dublin recently, and both women wanted to make a video to encourage their Irish friends to vote Yes on May 22nd. They hope that we in Ireland will be able to join Californians in being able to afford all citizens …
Jen lives in Dublin, where she also works as a software developer. She is proud to be voting yes on May 22nd, and believes that everyone should have a chance to live, and love, as first class, equal citizens. “Something we’ve heard a lot about in recent weeks is conscience… It weighs on my conscience that there’s a large group …