Homosexuals in Elected Office

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.

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.

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)