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Preserve Marriage’s name is not on the latest list of registered charities. The organisation, which campaigns against same-sex marriage and civil unions, applied to have its charitable status renewed earlier this year, as it was due to expire on Apri...

A lawyer representing controversial American speaker Ayo Kimathi has said his placement on the stop list was unlawful. While Mr Kimathi attacked homosexuality and interracial relations in a presentation at the Liberty Theatre, lawyer Eugene Johnston ...

Changing the law on same-sex marriage could open the door for “multiple partner marriages” on the island, lawyer Delroy Duncan told a packed Supreme Court yesterday. Mr Duncan, representing the charity Preserve Marriage, which opposes same-sex marria...

Dear Sir, Once again the issue of gay marriage is at the forefront in Bermuda. There are impassioned opinions on both sides. I will not tell anyone how to think, but I would ask if gay marriage was adopted in Bermuda, how would that affect those who ...

The Registrar-General cannot post marriage banns for gay couples because such unions are null and void under Bermuda’s existing laws, a court heard yesterday. Deputy Solicitor-General Shakira Dill-Francois, representing the Bermuda Government in a ci...

The lawyer for a gay couple fighting for the right to marry in Bermuda has urged the court to write the final chapter in the protection of gay rights. Mark Pettingill, acting on behalf of Bermudian Winston Godwin and his Canadian fiancé, Greg DeRoche...

New Governor John Rankin yesterday backed same-sex civil unions in Bermuda. “Civil unions have been recognised in the UK and in many other jurisdictions around the world,” he said. “I hope that any differing views on this issue in Bermuda can be reso...

Former Attorney-General Mark Pettingill said yesterday that a newspaper advertisement taken out by a group opposing same-sex marriage was “totally inappropriate” in light of ongoing legal proceedings. Preserve Marriage paid to place the half-page adv...

Police are to begin recording instances of hate crimes perpetrated against members of the island’s LGBT community, The Royal Gazette can reveal. The Bermuda Police Service’s quarterly and annual crime statistics do not include information about crime...

Government lawyers will argue in court that the Registrar-General was right to refuse to marry a gay couple because marriage is not a “service” as defined in the Human Rights Act. Acting Solicitor-General Norman MacDonald told a Supreme Court hearing...

A gay Bermudian and his fiancé have been granted leave to argue in the Supreme Court that they should be allowed to wed on the island. Winston Godwin and Greg DeRoche, who live in Toronto, had their application to marry rejected by the Registrar-Gene...

Yesha Townsend never intended to be a poet. Rapper was her vocation of choice. But children have a way of changing everything. The 29-year-old blames Gavin Smith for the intervention. Five years ago she was in Minnesota, working towards her bachelor...