At the same time James and Matt were planning their civil partnership ceremony, Australia – where James is originally from – was debating whether to legalise equal marriage.
Now that same-sex marriage is legal in both the UK and Australia, to mark their 10-year civil partnership anniversary, the couple have had discussions about converting their union into a marriage.
As for their friends and family, they were very supportive of James and Matt’s collective decision to get a civil partnership as a protest.
James says: ‘I don’t think there’s a one-size-fits-all for whether queer couples choose civil partnerships, marriage, or neither.
‘Matt especially would like to do this, but I’m perfectly happy keeping it as a civil partnership,’ James says.
