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Same-sex couples will be able to marry until the end of May, the home affairs minister revealed yesterday. Walton Brown said the introduction of the Domestic Partnership Act had been delayed to June 1 to allow planned same-sex marriages in Bermuda, ...

A date has been set for a Supreme Court challenge against a new law designed to replace same-sex marriage with domestic partnerships. Chief Justice Ian Kawaley will hear the civil case brought by gay Bermudian Rod Ferguson, 38, against Attorney-Gener...

An about-turn on same-sex marriage is “the last straw” for Bermudian Joe Gibbons and his Canadian partner, Christopher Vee. The couple are in the process of buying a business in Canada, where they aim to settle later this year. Mr Gibbons said: “We’v...

A legal challenge to Bermuda’s decision to ditch gay marriage will attempt to raise money through crowdfunding. Tony Brannon, who organised the fundraising effort, said that the legal challenge was an important one for human rights. Mr Brannon, a mu...

An international equal rights group based in the United States has urged its members to ignore a call to boycott Bermuda over its decision to ditch same-sex marriage. Jessica Stern, the executive director of OutRight Action International, said the ru...

A Bermudian who is challenging the gay marriage ban has spoken of his heartache that Bermuda has “moved backwards” while other countries become more progressive. Rod Ferguson, 38, filed a lawsuit in the Supreme Court against the Attorney-General, cla...

A gay Bermudian who hopes to marry one day in his home country has launched a legal challenge against the Attorney-General for revoking his right to do so and subjecting him to “inhuman or degrading treatment”. Lawyers for Rod Ferguson, a single man ...

The owner of an upmarket specialist gay travel firm has called on cruise lines to haul down the Bermuda flag on their ships and register their vessels elsewhere. Darren Burn, founder of UK-based LGBTQ travel firm OutOfOffice.com, said: “We had custo...

A pressure group set up to fight same-sex marriage has welcomed the news that the Governor has signed an Act to outlaw gay weddings. But OutBermuda, a gay rights group, said that it was only a matter of time before same sex marriages were reintroduce...

A legal challenge to a law designed to outlaw same-sex marriage could be fought in the Supreme Court. Lawyer Mark Pettingill said his firm had been approached by a number of people and that he had been “instructed at this stage to pursue the potentia...