# Homosexuals in Elected Office

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homosexuals-in-elected-office/392058>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 13, 2007, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homosexuals-in-elected-office/392058 "2007-02-13T19:17:20Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_T-Bonham.net)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2007, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homosexuals-in-elected-office/392058/21 "2007-02-14T07:18:10Z")

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[QUOTE=Alistair McCello]  
AWhat is the highest office an openly homosexual candidate has been elected to in the US?  
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Antinor01 covered the US Congress.

But when you say _highest_, that could mean State Constitutional Office, since they are elected statewide, while Members of Congress are only elected from a single Congressional District, which is only part of a state (usually).

Then the _highest_ openly GLBT elected official would be Ed Flanagan, Vermont State Auditor.

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**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2007, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homosexuals-in-elected-office/392058/22 "2007-02-14T08:26:36Z")

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While ministers aren’t elected, I know that the first same-sex marriage held in Norway involved the Minister of Finance and his partner, a doctor. I don’t know whether the minister was also a member of Parliament, as most Spanish ministers are.

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**Author:** ![Tom\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@Tom\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_P)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2007, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homosexuals-in-elected-office/392058/23 "2007-02-14T08:55:12Z")

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[QUOTE=Nava]  
While ministers aren’t elected, I know that the first same-sex marriage held in Norway involved the Minister of Finance and his partner, a doctor. I don’t know whether the minister was also a member of Parliament, as most Spanish ministers are.  
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[Per-Kristian Foss](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per-Kristian_Foss) was elected a member of Parliament, but once he became Minister of Finance he had to leave that seat. He is technically not “married”, but in a “registered partnership”. Apart from adoption issues and the right to a church ceremony in the state church, it is the same. (And I believe those two issues are starting to fall as well)

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