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Bermuda

The Bermuda Court of Appeal has upheld the previous court ruling in favor of same-sex marriage. The court issued no stay allowing marriages to commence immediately. The government has 21 days to appeal, should it choose to do so, to the Privy Council if the Council decides to hear the appeal. Appropriate articles and maps need to be edited to reflect this change. The Royal Gazette: Government loses same-sex battle Fortguy (talk) 03:46, 24 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Performed vs recognised

Noting the paragraphs about Crown Dependencies (which are not technically part of the UK by the way), the writers mention several territories with very low population e.g. Tristan da Cunha and Pitcairn (which both have under a thousand), and also South Georgia which has no permanent population. Is there any evidence of gay marriages being conducted in these places as opposed to recognition of them? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A01:4C8:141C:5F17:1:1:D114:9D23 (talk) 01:12, 16 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Figure for membership of Scottish Episcopal Church

Although the figure of 100,000 appears on the cited Religion News Service website, it gives a misleading impression, and I would question its reliability. According to Wikipedia, the Scottish Episcopal Church itself claimed in 2019 to have a church membership of 27,585 of whom 19,784 were communicant members. I suspect the discrepancy arises because of the familiar problem with churches, especially Anglican churches: a large number of people are baptised as infants into the church, and can thus be classed as members, but only those who are active members are likely to feature on church membership rolls.Ntmr (talk) 18:50, 14 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

More than 1.3 million people in England and Wales identify as lesbian, gay or bisexual, census data has revealed for the first time.

For people aged 16 and over, more than 1.5% - 748,000 - identify as gay or lesbian, and 624,000 (1.3%) as bisexual. Some 165,000 people identify as "other" sexual orientations. And 262,000 people (0.5%) said their gender identity was different from their sex registered at birth.[1]

Across England and Wales there were about 402,000 people in legally formalised same-sex relationships in 2021.

A total of 133,618 people across England and Wales (0.1%) were in a same-sex civil partnership in 2021, less than half of the number (268,522 , 0.2%) in a same-sex marriage.[2]