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Iceland to appoint gay woman minister to Prime Minister post



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I'd settle for us overcoming our Cabinet-post phobia.

Iceland's next leader will be an openly gay former flight attendant who parlayed her experience as a union organizer into a decades-long political career.

Both parties forming Iceland's new coalition government support the appointment of Johanna Sigurdardottir, the island nation's 66-year-old social affairs minister, as Iceland's interim prime minister.

"Now we need a strong government that works with the people," Sigurdardottir told reporters Wednesday, adding that a new administration will likely be installed Saturday.
Have any other countries ever been led by an openly gay leader? More from Terje's diary over at DKos.


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