This edited collection has analysed the necessity for both legal and social change with regard to regulation of same-sex relationships and rainbow families, the status of civil partnership as a concept and the lived reality of equality for LGBTQ+ persons. The current treatment of LGBTQ+ persons and same-sex couples by the Council of Europe, the European Union and further internationally has been examined. Whilst same-sex marriage is legal in 28 jurisdictions worldwide, other states provide varying degree of civil partnership rights and still others refuse to recognise same-sex couples' rights or even criminalise same-sex relationships. The competing views of critically analytical rights based theorists and those developing queer and feminist theory, represented in this edited collection, expose that even for those jurisdictions who have legalised same-sex marriage, still further and continuous work needs to be done. Legal and social change need to work together on an evolving basis over time in order to contribute to future development. Incrementalism recommends a model of 'small change' but has been critiqued throughout this book.Analysis This book has involved a series of inter-locking themes, including (Part One) the role of the ECtHR and the EU in relation to the treatment of same-sex couples' relationships, (Part Two) differing paths towards legalisation of same-sex marriage, (Part Three) rainbow families, (Part Four) the importance of civil partnership pin an era of same-sex marriage (Part Five) the heteronormative underpinnings of same-sex marriage and (Part Six) the interaction between social change and legal change. Many chapters in this work investigate the potential opportunities open to the EU in protecting the rights ofLGBTQ+ persons and same-sex couples and the consequent potential impact of Brexit for these persons based in the UK. 1 Whilst traditionally the EU was even stricter than the ECtHR in recognising nonconventional family types, 2 Hamilton's chapter has demonstrated that EU law has potential to further advance LGBTQ+ persons and same-sex couples' rights. 3 The EU concept of citizenship, which 1 See chapters 1-3 and 8. 2 Hamilton. 3 Hamilton.