Who are the West's first gay mayors?
Bertrand Delanoe, who was born to a French mother and a Tunisian father, announced that he was gay in a television program he attended in 1998. Three years later, he became the first "gay" Mayor of Paris.
In the same year, the "homo mayor" trend spread from France to Germany.
Berliners elected gay Klaus Wowereit to the mayoral seat.
Christine Quinn, who was elected as New York City Council President after Paris and Berlin, also announced that he is "gay and drag queen".
Delanoe, who was born in Tunisia as the child of a French mother and a Tunisian father and received a Catholic education, also organized student uprisings in the Catholic high school he attended in '68.
Bertrand Delanoë (born 30 May 1950 in Tunisia, French Tunisia) is a French politician and mayor of Paris from March 2001 to April 2014. He is a member of the Socialist Party. He was elected as a member of the Paris municipal council between 1977 and 2014, as a Paris deputy between 1981 and 1986, and as a Paris senator between 1995 and 2001.
September 2014
Mayor Klaus Wowereit, who has been in office and governing Berlin since 2001, announced in a statement last week that he decided to leave office on December 11.
Wowereit was one of the leading German politicians criticized for the Berlin-Brandenburg Airport (BER), the construction of which turned into a snake story.
Jörn Kubicki was Wowereit's life partner and became one of the first victims of the COVID-19 epidemic in Germany. (29 October 1965 - 28 March 2020 Berlin) Neurologist and neurosurgeon Kubicki had COPD. He died of heart failure on March 28, 2020, at the age of 54, due to complications related to COVID-19.