According to the Bermuda Sun, 100+ people attended a rally in Bermuda on August the 17th calling on the Government to extend human rights legislation to the LGBT community. The newly formed Rainbow Alliance held the event from noon till 2pm at Queen Elisabeth Park. The island decriminalised same sex activity between men in 1994 but imposed an unequal age of consent of 18 for heterosexual relations and 18 for homosexual ones; in line with the UK at the time. Currently the Government is sympathetic toward including LGBT people in human rights legislation, but same sex partnerships of any official kind have been ruled out. The Anglican and Catholic churches, together with the more hardline, conservative AME wield considerable influence over parliament.
The British and Commonwealth island has no recognition of same sex relations and no laws to protect same sex couples however. LGB people are not protected in the workplace. Gender identity is not even recognised as a concept. Bigotry and prejudice are said to be widespread and LGBT people on the island are said to seek to emigrate to the UK which paradoxically criminalised homosexuality on the island in the first place.