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Same-sex marriages that took place before the practice was outlawed are still valid under a Bill passed in the Senate yesterday. The Domestic Partnership Amendment Act extends the transitional period during which same-sex marriages could be carried o...

Legislation has been tabled in the UK House of Lords that could make same-sex marriage lawful throughout the British Overseas Territories – including Bermuda. The Marriage (Same Sex Couples) (Overseas Territories) Bill – tabled by Lord Michael Cashma...

Tackling a culture of homophobia is the key to keeping young people in Bermuda, according to an LGBTQ+ activist. Taj Donville-Outerbridge, 22, said that public intolerance was one of the biggest problems – and one that could not be solved entirely by...

Supporters of same-sex marriage would have a “good chance” of victory if their case was heard in the European Court of Human Rights, a constitutional expert said. Nicola Barker, a professor of law at the University of Liverpool in England, highlighte...

Campaigners vowed to keep fighting for equality despite disappointment after Privy Council judges allowed the Government’s legal challenge against same-sex marriage

The Government will take legal advice before deciding whether same-sex marriages that have already happened will be voided

Judges at the island’s highest court of appeal found that legislation banning same-sex marriage in Bermuda was not unconstitutional.

Privy Council judges yesterday dismissed an appeal from two women who wanted a legally recognised marriage in the Cayman Islands. Chantelle Day and Vickie Bodden Bush challenged a Court of Appeal ruling that the overseas territory’s Bill of Rights di...

June 2013: The Human Rights Act 1981 is amended to outlaw discrimination due to sexual orientation. Wayne Furbert, then an Opposition MP, tries unsuccessfully to remove same-sex marriage from the new provision. October 2015: Preserve Marriage...

The battle to ban same-sex marriage has cost taxpayers more than $400,000 in external legal fees, the Government has revealed. The Ministry of Home Affairs told The Royal Gazette that $411,627 had been spent so far on outside lawyers and law firms. T...