Lee Berrier is going to marry her girlfriend come hell or high water.
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Nothing will stand in her way in exchanging vows with the love of her life, 21-year-old Sam Berryman.
"It's going to happen," the 26-year-old woman told the Daily Liberal, that has often published photographs of the couple out and about in Dubbo.
"We're going to get married whether it's legal or not."
The rebel in Ms Berrier has found a voice since she took the public leap from straight to gay in the past couple of years.
Since coming out of the "closet" she's struggled with being treated like a second-class citizen when it comes to marriage.
"I'm no different," she said.
"I'm the same person I have always been, nothing about me has changed. My values, my goals, my morals are all still the same.
"It's just the fact that I fell in love with a woman."
While marriage is "absolutely" on the couple's agenda, Ms Berrier hints at the hope that the national and community-driven campaign for marriage equality may negate the need to improvise.
"Now that I've met Sam, come out and everything, I'm not going back," she said.
"It would be nice for our friends and families to be able to celebrate it just as much as they would have before."
An administration assistant for a Dubbo company, Ms Berrier's advocacy for equal rights comes from both a personal and altruistic place.
"I think about the kids out there," she said.
"I know how I felt growing up-hiding it away, feeling like I should be ashamed and not being able to tell anybody.
"There are kids out there at the moment killing themselves because of issues that lead up to and eventuate with marriage equality.
"Not being allowed to marry comes back to feelings of not being equal, not being worthy."
That's not acceptable to Ms Berrier, who thinks Dubbo has the ability to make a difference.
The young woman tells of "one out of 10" people who "frown or say something" when they see her and Ms Berryman together.
But on the whole she feels part of a "fairly good community" where residents help one another in good and bad times.
"We all band together and we're all there for each other," she said.
"That's the kind of community we have out here, that's what Dubbo is about."
Ms Berrier thinks a positive attitude towards marriage equality in Dubbo "should come from the top".
She wants Dubbo City Council to pass a motion supporting same-sex marriage and send a letter to the federal government encouraging it to reform the Marriage Act.
