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Mark Pettingill, the lawyer for a same-sex couple seeking to marry in Bermuda, has expressed little surprise that the Registrar-General’s office had not posted his clients’ marriage notice by the close of business on Friday, as required. The office w...

A mother has described her gay son and his partner as “very courageous” for launching a bid to have Bermuda’s first same-sex marriage. Sylvia Hayward-Harris told The Royal Gazette it was typical of her son Ijumo Hayward to “not worry about public app...

A gay couple seeking permission to marry in Bermuda are highly likely to succeed if their case goes before the courts, according to a human rights expert. Lawyer Mark Diel said recent court judgments regarding same-sex couples in Bermuda showed the I...

A gay Bermudian who is hoping to marry his partner on the Island wants his landmark case to end a culture of people being forced to “live either a lie or in the shadows or behind closed doors”. Ijumo Hayward, 46, and his American partner Clarence Wil...

Concerned Citizens of Bermuda hopes to launch a conversation about same-sex marriage after American speaker Ryan Anderson gave his second talk on the subject last night. The formerly covert group organised the lectures to address the rising concerns...

Advocates for preserving traditional marriage “will not participate in any form of hate speech”, last night’s gathering on the topic heard. Instead, visiting American speaker Ryan Anderson outlined a definition of marriage as inherently the domain of...

Same-sex marriage opponent Ryan Anderson has spoken out about the “unfortunate” refusal of the Hamilton Princess, Bermuda to host his talks. Dr Anderson — who is due to speak instead at the New Testament Church of God, Heritage Worship Centre, today ...

A newlywed couple have given a new meaning to the idea of “taking the plunge” by leaping off the cliffs at Admiralty House to celebrate their marriage. Michelle and Jeff Willingham leaped into the sea off Spanish Point on Sunday, just 24 hours after ...

I’m a gay Bermudian who has lived away from my homeland since 2005 when I graduated from college. This is in large part because the laws of Bermuda did not allow me to return without having to leave my long-term partner thousands of miles away. As su...

A prominent opponent of same-sex marriage has been invited to the Island by the group Concerned Citizens of Bermuda. Ryan Anderson, who is a member of the conservative American think-tank the Heritage Foundation, lectures on the constitutional implic...

One Bermuda Alliance MPs Mark Pettingill and Suzann Roberts-Holshouser have voiced their opposition to “any form of discrimination” in response to a Royal Gazette poll on same-sex marriage. None of the other 34 Members of Parliament gave their opinio...

Dear Mr Editor, I had the good fortune of being invited to the Throne Speech on Friday. In my mind, the event is intended to bring under the big tent all walks of life, with the aim of building community where differences and divisions disappear in f...