Johanna Sigurdardottir, the world's first openly gay head of government
Johanna Sigurdardottir, the world's first openly gay head of government, has married her partner under a new law that defined marriage as a union between two consenting adults regardless of sex.
According to the UK Telegraph which quoted a local broadcaster said the 68-year-old formally married Jonina Leosdottir, a writer in her fifties, after the couple submitted a demand for their civil union to be transformed into a marriage.
The couple entered a civil union in 2002 under exisiting civil partnership laws that accorded same-sex couples the same rights as heterosexual couples.
Iceland's parliament on June 12 unanimously adopted legislation allowing gay marriage, in a law that came into force on Sunday.
Sigurdardottir became Iceland's prime minister last year, after the previous center-right government was ousted by a wave of protest triggered by the country's economic crisis.
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Gender would certainly be a better word. If we looked at sex in this case as a verb, it would certainly define most marriages..... a union between a man and a woman regardless of sex. ( you know the old joke, get married and you never have sex again)
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