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“We had a civil partnership ceremony to be able to have our union legally If you truly love the woman you are with
on 16 September 2006 in Islington recognised in the eyes of the law. It’s our and she loves you too you shouldn’t be
Town Hall. basic human right, and we are so glad put off getting CP’d. It’s what the poet
that it has happened in our lifetime. Lord Alfred Douglas called ‘the love that
We decided that after 23 years of being dare not speak its name’, but now it can
together and our love having endured Our civil partnership makes our union now be spoken and shouted and sung!
the passage of time, now was our legal in the eyes of the law as we now
moment to legally seal our union have a voice in all aspects of our partner’s We can see that the dilemma of
without question. It was the happiest welfare such as health and fi nances. We whether or not to let your family
day of our lives apart from fi nding are no longer seen as ‘just’ girlfriends which members know, if they are not
each other. may seem transient to the family (no completely comfortable with your
matter how long you have been together) sexuality, is a big issue for some,
This is one of the most important pieces therefore it also raises your status within though.”
of legislation for lesbians and gay men, the family dynamics equal to a wife.
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