Six-year stggle for an optn that gay partners already enjoy will face a new tt this week
Contents:
- GAY MARRIAGE V CIVIL PARTNERSHIP: WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?
- CIVIL PARTNERSHIP NVERSN FOR LANDMARK GAY UPLE
GAY MARRIAGE V CIVIL PARTNERSHIP: WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?
Wele to ! The ee gui for gay and lbian upl the UK nsirg a Civil Partnership. * gay civil partnership uk *
The ee gui for gay and lbian upl the UK nsirg a Civil Partnership.
A civil partnership is a legal marriage between upl that are gay or lbian.
Although a civil partnership is sentially viewed as a “gay marriage”, between same sex partners, the reason is not lled a “gay marriage”, is that there are a few differenc between a partnership and a marriage on a technil level. Dissolutn is the termatn of a civil partnership; divorce for gay marriage. I created this web se after many days of rearch to fd out jt exactly what a Civil Partnership is, and how would affect gay and lbian upl wantg a gay marriage.
CIVIL PARTNERSHIP NVERSN FOR LANDMARK GAY UPLE
Government Equali OfficeThe Government Equali Office (GEO) is the ernment partment rponsible for a range of equali policy and legislatn and is the lead partment on genr and lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) issu ernment cludg the Marriage (Same Sex Coupl) Act 2013 and Civil Partnership Act men or womenSgle men or women are persons who have never prevly been married or formed a civil partnership. Image ptn, Chris and Henry Flanagan-Kane are one of 1, 300 same-sex upl Northern Ireland who n now nvert their civil partnerships to marriagChris and Henry Flanagan-Kane were the first gay men the UK to get a civil partnership back they were left a legal limbo when the laws were changed to allow same-sex upl to get married already civil partnerships were nied the retrospective right to marriage, sparkg a long legal of Monday, more than 1, 300 same-sex upl Northern Ireland n nvert their civil partnerships to Flanagan-Kan were among the first gog through the procs.
"We were gog somewhere wh a big flashg sign sayg 'I'm gay' - so other people wh opns on that or who were prejudiced agast that, they were formg them already before they had even met you. Equaly mpaigners weled the cisn, but warned missng a nsultatn would impose unnecsary lays on a straightforward ernment had been due to rpond to a lg June that was discrimatory to rtrict civil partnerships to gay upl. The ernment had ially expected them to cle sharply after the legalisatn of gay marriage number of athbed weddgs has also gone up, suggtg habg upl are belatedly realisg that whout the legal protectn of a formal relatnship, any survivg partner is exposed to herance tax.