Context Speech Help

[kavmeh]

Hi everyone,
I am doing Identity and belonging (SKIN) for context and I wrote a speech last week on the prompt below. But I feel like I'm not discussing the actual point related to the prompt. So can anyone please give me feedback on how to make this speech better
Thank you

“Discovering who we are and where we belong can be challenging”
Good evening ladies and gentlemen,
First of all I’d like to thank all of you for attending our wedding. It’s been a pleasure for Josh and I to organize our wedding but it seriously took great effort to send out invitations, especially when you have to encourage people to travel to another country
When Josh and I decided to tie the knot many things were running through my mind, which to be honest shouldn’t have at that very special moment, but they were. I was thinking, how will this work? Where will we get married? Will our families support our decision and what about the community? Will they accept us? But finally we made it, thank goodness.
As you all know Josh and I have been together for a long time now, so we decided to get married. To make our marriage legal we decided to get married here in America, miles away from our homeland Australia because of our not so supportive legal system. So, thank you again for taking time out to celebrate this beautiful day of our lives.
It took me a while to understand myself, to understand who I really am and what I wanted. Those twenty-five years of my life were like some sort of imprisonment. My confusion about my sexuality mixed with suicidal thoughts, ideas of running away to hide because I felt scared and ashamed of my identity and the things I truly desired.
I won’t lie it was bloody hard to be someone I wasn’t, especially the times when mum used to force me to invite my girlfriend over for dinner even though I didn’t have one. To make my mum and sister happy I tried, to make myself to fall in love with a girl and flirted with them just so I could fit in with my social groups. But it felt unnatural for me. It wasn’t what I wanted. Deep down I knew that I wasn’t romantically drawn to women and I couldn’t change that.
I visited many psychiatrists for some sort of therapy that could change my perception towards other males. I hoped it was just a phase of young teenage life. But then I realised that by doing something like that, I was actually doing injustice to myself, I was attempting to change myself into someone I wasn’t. Since the day I told everyone the truth that I am gay many people have left me. As you can see some of my family members are not present. It makes me think why? Why did my aunty who loved me like her own child disown me? I guess some people don’t realise we live in the twenty first century now and dinosaurs disappeared millions of years ago.
But all of you who are here, I want you to know that it wasn’t that easy for me to display my real self externally.. The struggles that I faced after my revelation were heart achingly painful. I still remember the disappointment after we approached different venues for our wedding reception but were refused because apparently they were ‘booked out’. The next day when my friend Lily decided to fake her wedding reception and asked the same venues they had no bookings for a whole week.
It is unimaginable for me to think about people who want to be together and call themselves a happily married couple, but they can’t because of our laws in Australia. The laws which stopped a sick mother from seeing her son getting married. My mum who loved and supported me all throughout my life couldn’t be here because she was too sick to travel. Her dream of seeing her son getting married is just that - a dream.
When I first met Josh, I never realised that I could also be loved by someone, especially after all those years of loneliness and isolation that I suffered because I was gay. I met someone who encouraged me to be myself, he often used a quote by Dr.Suess and said Steve “Why fit in when you were born to stand out”. It made me realise that we are all different., I can pick out ten of you here and ask you something about yourself. I’ll hear ten different things from each one of you. To celebrate our differences we can all encourage others to love everyone whether they are gay or not. After all we’re humans right? Then let’s support those who want to celebrate their love with their families in Australia. Let’s take a step towards making everyone equal, the message that I want you to take from our wedding is that we need to speak up and let other Australians have an opportunity to legally be with someone who they want to spend their life with. 
Thank you again for joining us to celebrate the union of two souls, not just two bodies. But most importantly, thank you for accepting me the way I am. A special thanks to Josh who I love beyond this world for always being by my side no matter how bad the situation was and for making me feel special the way I am, for finding perfections in my imperfections.