The road to civil unions: 'The Baker Case' In the late 90s, three lawyers and three same-sex couples decided it was time to test Vermont’s marriage laws.

A Cayman Islands' law legalising same-sex civil partnerships was upheld by a London court on Monday, after a long-running legal battle, in a ruling hailed by campaigners. London's Privy Council, the ...

Vermont became the first state to grant marriage-equivalent rights to same-sex couples through civil unions in 2000. The Vermont Supreme Court's decision in Baker v.

Socially conservative Romania decriminalised homosexuality in 2001, decades later than other parts of the EU, but still bars ...

The road to civil unions: 'The Baker Case' In the late '90s, three lawyers and three same-sex couples decided it was time to test Vermont’s marriage laws.

Vermont became the first state to grant marriage-equivalent rights to same-sex couples through civil unions in 2000. The Vermont Supreme Court's decision in Baker v.

Vermont became the first state to grant marriage-equivalent rights to same-sex couples through civil unions in 2000. The Vermont Supreme Court's decision in Baker v.

'Painful' life before civil unions. Prior to the creation of civil unions, gay and lesbian couples lacked “a thousand more rights” than married straight couples, Lippert said, no matter how long they ...