Gay PM weds in Iceland
| 06 July 2010
Iceland’s Prime Minister and the world's first openly gay head of government, Johanna Sigurdardottir, married her long-time partner, Jonina Leosdottir, on June 27 as a new law legalising gay marriages came into force.
Gay couples could previously enter into a civil partnership benefiting from the same rights as heterosexual couples, but not considered a formal marriage.
Sigurdardottir and Leosdottir entered a civil union in 2002 and submitted a demand for their civil union to be transformed into a marriage after Iceland's parliament unanimously adopted legislation allowing gay marriage on June 12.
Sigurdardottir, 68, has lived with Ledsdottir, a writer in her fifties, for several years. Sigurdardottir was appointed prime minister in 2009, the first female as well as gay person to become the country’s head of state.
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