Equal Junction

Journalist and playwright Jonina Leosdottir married Johanna Sigurdardottir, Prime Minister of Iceland over the weekend (Pride Weekend). There was no ceremony, but it still was a major moment in history as the first world leader in modern history to legally marry a same-sex partner. Congrats to the Leosdottir-Sigurdardottir family! Let this send waves of justice to other lands in the near future!

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Not only is their leader, Prime Minister Johanna Sigurdardottir, is the first openly Lesbian world leader, but today in a unanimous vote, “the Althingi parliament voted 49 to zero to change the wording of marriage legislation to include matrimony between “man and man, woman and woman,” in addition to unions between men and women.”

Thank you Iceland! To Read more CLICK HERE

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According to IceNews:

“Single women, Gay couples and heterosexual couples who both suffer from fertility issues now have permission to use both donor eggs and donor sperm in IVF treatment following a law passed my Iceland’s Althingi parliament yesterday.

Before the change in the law IVF patients were only allowed to use donor eggs in cases when the sperm came from the hopeful father-to-be. It was always prohibited for single women, lesbian couples and women not using their husband or partner’s sperm to use donor eggs.”

The was no vote against it  To Read MORE click HERE

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In early 2009, Ms. Sigurdottir became the first elected, openly lesbian, prime minister.

Former flight attendant, Sigurdottir came into parliament in 1978.  She is known as St. Johanna due to her advocacy to the disadvantaged, elderly, and handicapped. In 2002, Madame Prime Minister and Jonina Leosdottir entered into a civil union continuing their long-term companionship.

Back in 2002, the first LGBT person to lead a country was Interim Prime Minister Per-Kristian Foss of Norway.

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