FILMMAKER and ex-Home and Away actor Bianca Biasi says children of gay parents will suffer if a plebiscite on marriage equality goes ahead.
Filmmakers Bianca and Rebekah Biasi with their twin daughters Brooklyn and Bella. They are speaking out about marriage equality and the plebiscite. Picture: Troy Snook
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A FORMER Home and Away actor and popular blogger says she fears a plebiscite on marriage equality would cause an “emotional bloodbath” for families like hers.
Bianca Biasi, who played cop Pia Correlli in the popular soap series, said people’s opinions on marriage equality were changing and she had received support for her views from her 47,000 Instagram blog followers.
The 37-year-old and her partner Rebekah, 35, said they were choosing to speak out on behalf of their ten-month-old twin girls, Brooklyn and Bella, amid concerns children of gay parents would become a target if a plebiscite went ahead.
On her Instagram account bianca — biasi, she said the cornerstone of the opposition’s argument was their resolve “to protect the children”, as they believed gay marriage was a negative environment for them.
“Most of the people using this excuse are advertising that they are from a Christian or religious background,” Ms Biasi wrote in her blog.
The Dee Why couple who were behind the locally-made movie The Quarantine Hauntings, said they both grew up in religious families and understood what the churches were trying to protect.
While, they were for marriage equality, they said they wouldn’t want any priest or pastor to be forced to conduct same sex weddings, only those who wanted to.
But, they also wanted to protect their children from being bullied in the future.
Bianca Biasi as cop Pia Correlli in Home and Away.
“We would never teach our children to be judgmental against anyone,” said Ms Biasi, whose eggs were used to conceive their twins, which were then transplanted into her partner Rebekah Biasi, who carried them.
“We don’t want them growing up in a world where they are attacked because of who we are.
“Bullying is an issue. How can this all stop if we have a government causing segregation?
“A plebiscite would create an emotional bloodbath.”
Around 11 per cent of gay men and 33 per cent of gay women in Australia have children, according to statistics.
Ms Biasi, also starred in a number of TV shows including All Saints and White Collar Blue before becoming a movie director, said she met her British-born partner 10 years ago. They committed to one another in a civil ceremony in 2008 at the UK Consulate in Sydney.
They were invited back in 2014, when gay marriage was legalised in the UK, to “upgrade”, although their marriage is not legally recognised in Australia.
Ms Biasi, who found it difficult growing up gay on the beaches, said people were more accepting today.
“I think the word marriage should be available to every human being,” she said. “Australia is so behind the times.”
