April 26 marks the 25th anniversary of civil unions becoming state law in Vermont. Here's why it's so significant.

States across the world have been hesitant to recognize their right to marry and thus, a stop-gap measure of a civil union or domestic partnership was created. Even in India the Supreme Court in ...

civil partnership bill in the House. The Padilla and Herrera-Dy measures are similar in that they seek to institutionalize civil unions for same-sex couples, with the goal of giving them the same ...

Legal recognition of their partnership had been a long time coming. Upon their civil union, they combined their names into a new surname, Axgil. Whether they are saying 'I do' in the church ...

Sponsor Message Karolina and Ola — who withhold their surnames to protect their children — are in a same-sex partnership ... way for legal status for civil unions. Prime Minister Donald ...

Between 2000 and 2009, thousands of gay couples from other states and nations traveled to Vermont to enter civil unions. They wanted legal recognition of their relationship somewhere even if their ...

After years of legal discrimination, Poland's same-sex couples await civil union law WARSAW ... protect their children — are in a same-sex partnership, and Ola is the biological mother of ...