Gayby Baby Page #4

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gonna be a bit strange.

I'm talking to people

that have believed in God

since they were like five years old.

It's almost like telling a

child that Santa's not real.

- So you don't really believe in God.

- No.

- Yeah.

What are the things that

make you disbelieve God.

- They've just made this book

Where everything is perfect

and this is how they

think everyone should live

and if you follow this,

you have to live like this.

You can't marry someone that's not,

you can't marry the same-sex.

- Mm.

- And all that kind of stuff.

- Mm.

The issue under that,

in your life for you,

is that, is the question

about, who's to say that

who should marry who and things like

that.

That's the big question?

- Yeah.

- Yeah.

That's really great with your mum and

Lou

that we can say, look, we

really think the Bible says this

but we love you, and love you to be

here,

which you know is true.

So it's not always easy,

because we really do disagree

on something that's very

important to both of us.

Were you worried I'd be embarrassed

if you asked that question?

- No.

- Really?

You know, it's a gutsy question.

Any question I like, all

questions are good questions.

Yeah.

- Um, why do you go to a church

Where everyone thinks

you're a sin against God?

When you could just go to a church

Where everyone thinks that you're

normal.

- For me, it's not

about what people think.

It's what I believe my God believes

and what he thinks about us.

You think that we should

go to a different church.

- No, it's just.

- Where we're accepted.

- No, I'm just curious

Why you chose this church

instead of another one.

- Is your disbelief in God got

anything to do with the fact

that Lou and Mummy are in a

relationship?

And that that is a sin against God,

as the Bible says.

- That's a bit of it.

- Okay.

- Alright, I'm just gonna

be another ten minutes

because I'm still with my other

students.

Sorry I don't really have

any referees here (Laughs)

so just give me a sec.

- Okay.

When I first found out my mums were

gay

and they were going on like

together together and stuff,

I was kind of, I don't know,

I wasn't that accepting at first.

- Your legs look so short in those

pants.

(Chatter)

- I was the kind of person who'd go,

haha you're gay, you suck, you're

gay-

Who'd make jokes about it.

- Leave her alone, I'm doing her

socks up.

- [Ebony] People would slowly find

out

and I'd just kind of be like,

yeah and kind of run off.

(Giggling)

It's not normal, you're

not normal and stuff,

the kind of things that would

go around my head at the time.

(Laughs)

- Hello again.

- Hi.

- It's gonna be a very

crowded room tonight.

- I just want to see her a little bit

then we'll give you the space.

- Do you want to have a sing through?

Are you warmed up and ready to go?

Have you done any singing this

afternoon?

- Not today.

- Not today, alright,

let's do a little bit of singing

today.

Might need to get rid of the chewing

gum.

There's tissue up the

top of the shelf there.

Alright, so are you guys both staying

or are you gonna...

- Don't you wanna listen to her

singing?

- Oh you wanna hear her sing first.

Alright no worries.

- I'll have a little

listen and then I'll go.

(Piano music)

- What about if we look at,

let's get that out for a second.

Let's time this.

When you sing it at home,

how much louder is it?

- Quite a bit louder.

- Quite a bit louder, is it? (Laughs)

So do you think maybe we

should have a crack at

trying to get it a quite a

bit louder in here as well?

- Maybe.

- We'll have a go at it eh?

- I sing better in my room, in the

shower,

not in front of a crowd of people.

(Singing)

- How are you, come on through.

- [Ebony] I'm very nervous

about the audition.

I'm scared that I don't get in.

- Ebony come here, Ebony.

Have a practise song.

Please?

- No.

- You need the practise, go on.

You need to get over your nerves.

Practise what you're gonna

do for your audition.

- Actually they're afraid

of everybody laughing.

- No one's gonna laugh.

Just your little brother.

And that's okay, I'll

put a hand over his mouth

and you'll be fine.

- Don't wanna do it.

- Why?

That's ridiculous.

Come on, please?

Just go brush your teeth

and go pop on to bed.

Off you go.

Night, chicken!

- Night.

- She needs to build

up some more confidence

and do things that make

her feel uncomfortable.

She chucked tantrums at her teachers

and stood there at Riverside Theatre,

where she's performing

in a combined choir,

with her arms crossed looking pissed

off

because she didn't want to sing a

song.

Not because she didn't want to sing,

because she didn't like the song.

She needs to be pushed to do things

that make her feel a

little bit uncomfortable.

To those who ground me

Take a message back from me

And nobody in all of Oz

No wizard that there is or was

is ever gonna bring me down

(Child cries)

What's wrong with him?

(Child cries)

What's happened?

- He's just had a seizure.

- It's okay.

Your sissie's got you.

(Loud cries)

- It's alright, go do your practise.

- Go do your practise, it's alright.

- Guh guh ood.

- Okay Graham, honey,

what are our three rules.

- Slow down, don't guess, read

until the end of the word.

- Right.

What's the last letter there

at the end of the word there?

Is it a D?

- N.

- Okay Graham, the word is diet.

- Diet, his diet.

- It's not his at all, it's this.

- This diet gave him.

- Slow, stop.

Start at the beginning, slow down

and don't guess.

- His.

- It's not his honey, it's this.

- This diet gave him a

tuh, tummy ache

and a breath tempoor...

- So his diet gave him a beastly

temper.

Alright?

Okay, let's keep going.

Just, okay my thoughts are

to start inquiring about

the resources we might need.

And if that's a teacher that's

retired

or a young teacher at the university,

or.

- Yeah.

- Someone.

Someone who's studying teaching,

someone who's studying speech

therapy,

someone who's studying learning,

whatever.

- And we just need to let them know

that he just couldn't speak

when he came to live with us.

That all he had were

vowel sounds, you know,

and like hand signals.

But it's important that

they know that it was

that extreme and that he's done so

well

but that he really was

at this real disadvantage

without being about to speak

at age five or whatever.

- They proudly sang their song,

proudly.

(Melancholy music)

- Yeah.

Who's the taxi?

- How's school?

- Eh.

When I saw my test score I was a bit

sad

because it was a bit low.

I got like, five, no four wrong.

That's all.

- You got four wrong out of six.

- Yeah.

- That's a lot.

- I know that is, but.

- What subject was it.

- It was, like you read it

then you answer questions.

It's like there's book.

- Reading comprehension.

- Yeah.

- And do you just have to fill in a

word

or do you write sentences?

- Sentences.

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