Iceland's lesbian PM ties the knot

28 Jun 2010, 7:27 am   -   Source: AFP
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Iceland's Prime Minister Johanna Sigurdardottir attends press conference in 2009 (AFP/Getty Images)

Iceland's Prime Minister Johanna Sigurdardottir attends press conference in 2009 (AFP/Getty Images)

Iceland Prime Minister Johanna Sigurdardottir married her long-time partner on Sunday as a new law legalising homosexual marriages came into force.

Iceland Prime Minister Johanna Sigurdardottir married her long-time partner on Sunday as a new law legalising homosexual marriages came into force.
  
Sigurdardottir, in her late 60s, formally married writer Jonina Leosdottir after the couple submitted a demand for their civil union to be transformed into a marriage, the RUV broadcaster said.
  
Iceland's parliament on June 12 unamimously adopted legislation allowing gay marriage, in a law that came into force on Sunday.

First openly gay PM
  
Homosexual couples could previously enter into a civil partnership and benefit from the same rights as heterosexual couples, but this had not been considered a formal marriage.
  
Sigurdardottir, born in 1942, took power in February 2009. She has lived with Ledsdottir, who is in her fifties, for several years and the couple entered a civil union in 2002.
  
She is the country's first openly gay head of government.
  

 

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Congratulations Iceland

Proud Gay Man - from Melbourne, 2 years ago

Congratulations to Johanna, her partner, and their country!!!! If only Australia was as progressive as Iceland....

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