World leaders that are gay

While openly lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender world leaders are still a rarity, there are a few who are breaking barriers. Gunderson served in Congress from until Aya Kamikawa, who serves as a Tokyo municipal official in the Setagaya City Council, became Japan's first out transgender elected official in She serves one of the most populous districts in Tokyo.

As of Juneit's still rare for a head of government to be openly LGBTQ+. Polis made history again when he was elected governor of Colorado a decade later, becoming the first openly gay man elected governor of any U. Polis was re-elected in by a wide margin.

On April 2,Michigan student Kathy Kozachenko was elected to the Ann Arbor City Council, making her the first openly gay person elected to public office in the U. While she served only a single term, Kozachenko opened a door to LGBTQ representation in politics when the community was rapidly gaining visibility in American society.

Jared Polis, D-Colo. Before she made history in the Senate, Sinema made history when she was elected to the House inbecoming the first openly bisexual member of either chamber of Congress.

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InFrank married his longtime partner, James Ready, becoming the first member of Congress in a same-sex marriage. Now, more than a decade later, Takano is still serving his Southern California district. Mark Takano, D-Calif. Harvey Milk became the first openly gay elected official in California — and one of the first in the country — when he was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in Less than a year after he was elected, Milk, 48, was assassinated by the sole supervisor who voted against the ordinance, becoming a martyr and an icon in the LGBTQ community.

Steve GundersonR-Wis. Frank served in Congress from until he retired in Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis. Barbara Jordan became the first Black woman elected to the Texas Senate inand six years later, inshe made history again by becoming the first woman and first Black person elected to Congress from the state.

Elaine Noble became the first openly gay person elected to statewide office in the U. Former Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass. In addition to becoming the first openly gay prime minister of the island nation, the year-old was the youngest head of government for the country and the first member of an ethnic minority to.

Intwo years before her death, Bill Clinton awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her work as a political trailblazer. InGunderson was the sole Republican in Congress to vote against the Defense of Marriage Act, which allowed states to refuse to recognize same-sex marriages performed in states that permitted such unions.

Parker, who served as mayor fromis also the only person in Houston history to have ever served as mayor, council member and controller of the city. As France welcomes its first gay prime minister, here are the LGBTQ world leaders, both past and present, you need to know about.

The other two openly LGBTQ heads of government identify as lesbian. Here are the four leaders currently in office or elected to the top job. Xavier Bettel, who became prime minister of Luxembourg inwas the first openly gay prime minister in the world to be re-elected for a second term.

Other identities in the LGBTQ community, including bisexual, transgender, and intersex, have therefore not been openly represented in world heads of state and heads of government. Sinema announced in March that she would not run for re-election this year.