OMG! Gays are taking over! [Gaganymede]

OMG! Gays are taking over!

06 October 2009 at 19:07
Politik Pop

What the hell is happening?

In Germany, the FDP, a right-wing, pro-free market party led by Guido Westerwelle, won enough seats in the Bundestag to govern with Chancellor Angela Merkel. Everybody expects openly gay Westerwelle to become Foreign Minister. Gays.com highlighted in an article the year will have been good for gay politicians, especially since the victory of Johanna in the parliamentary elections, who became the first openly gay elected head of government in History.

Thinking about it, there's more and more prominent gays in the world... In the United States, the most active person in Congress among Democrats, after speaker Nancy Pelosi, is Barney Frank. He's on the front line regarding the health care reform. In the United Kingdom, Lord Peter Mandelson is one of the most powerful government members, gathering no less than three titles, including First Secretary of State, so much that the opposition called him "the real Prime Minister".

Nevertheless, can we talk of a real change for the gays? In the US, we saw that, during Barack Obama's election, last November 4, States also voted against every law project that would grant LGBT people new rights. Likewise, in Iceland, in the UK and in Germany, homosexuality is already broadly accepted. These issues of persons in charge doesn't seem to have any real impact, it's rather the other way around: it's the tolerance of a society towards LGBT people that seems to enable citizens from the sexual minority to be elected.