Houston Elects Gay Mayor

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Houston Elects Gay Mayor

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Houston’s current city controller, Annise Parker, will be Houston’s first gay mayor.

Thanks to Annise Parker’s victory in a runoff election Saturday, Houston will become the largest U.S. city to have an openly gay mayor. Parker was the target of anti-gay rhetoric but mobilized gay rights groups in her defense.

The BBC:

Houston has become the largest US city to elect an openly gay mayor.

Annise Parker, the current city controller, won 53.6% in the run-off election, beating fellow Democrat Gene Locke, a former city attorney.

“The voters of Houston have opened the door to history,” Ms Parker told supporters following her victory.

Campaigning ahead of the hotly contested vote in the Texan city, which has a population of 2.2 million people, was marked by anti-gay rhetoric.

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By Della Joplin, December 20, 2009 at 8:47 pm Link to this comment
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Yahoo!

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By ChaoticGood, December 14, 2009 at 9:40 am Link to this comment

As soon as she does anything to upset the texas “Moral Taliban Police”, then she is “toast”.

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By dihey, December 14, 2009 at 7:01 am Link to this comment

Robert, I live in Houston and voted for Ms. Parker. Her sexual orientation is a huge deal in one of the most conservative states of our Union and needs to be trumpeted as a sign that change without the hope-mantra is here.

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By bogglesthemind, December 13, 2009 at 12:17 pm Link to this comment

“was marked by anti-gay rhetoric.”

That should have read “was marked by anti-intelligence rhetoric.”

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By Robert, December 13, 2009 at 12:00 pm Link to this comment
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The inanity of headlining the Houston mayor-elect’s sexual
proclivities reminds me of the story about Oscar Wilde. Some cruel soul made a point of telling his grandson how he had been sentenced to the Reading Gaol for the crime of sodomy.
“Thank God,” he replied, “I thought it was embezelment.”

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