Greetings to the both of you like others say your find no problems on this site with being gay.
My Wife a few months back bumped into Gay Phills on the bus a few times who had come over recently and were not nurses. I don't know all the details but i think they came over on cvill partnership or possibly vist visas at first. So it is possible.
Although you may get problems with the phill authorities, as your Brit partner will have told you the UK authorities should and can not show any prediuce agaisnt you both.
In fact of you showed that you were less like to recieve problems in the UK as a couple it should work as a postive as to why you should be allowed over.