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Cayman Islands now have same-sex civil partnerships but battle for marriage equality goes on
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The governor of the Cayman Islands has now signed the Civil Partnership Law, allowing same-sex couples to register their relationships.
However, the new partnerships fall far short of marriage equality and LGBT+ campaigners have pledged to fight on. Their battle is likely to end in a British court next year.
The Cayman Islands government failed to push its own Domestic Partnership Bill through the islands’ assembly at the end of July.
That forced Governor Martyn Roper to intervene. He is a British government representative as the Caymans are a British Overseas Territory.
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