First openly-gay world leader appointed in Iceland
”She is a senior parliamentarian, she is respected and loved by all of Iceland.”
Thorunn Sveinbjarnardottir, a fellow Alliance party member to Johanna Sigurdardottir, 66, a lesbian who was just appointed as Prime Minister of Iceland. She has reportedly been a member of parliament since 1978, currenly lives with her female civil partner, Jonina Leosdottir, but was previously married to a man and has two children. Iceland’s government is said to have collapsed under a banking financial crisis, and Sigurdardottir in the interim pick for PM as the North Atlantic island nation reassembles. (Associated Press)
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