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Same-sex couples are choosing marriage over civil partnership

A RAINBOW parade will whirl through London on June 27th to mark Pride, a weeklong gay jamboree. Britain’s “LGBTQ+ community”, the term used by the march’s organisers to cover the ever-broadening spectrum of human sexuality, has plenty to celebrate. Since 2005 gay couples have been able to form civil partnerships, marriages in all but name. Since 2014 they have also been allowed to wed (except in Northern Ireland).

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