World gets first gay head of state

ANDY MCSMITH
SYNDICATED COLUMNIST
January 28, 2009

The first government collapse of the global crisis is about to yield the world's first openly gay prime minister. Johanna Sigurdardottir, a former air hostess, is expected to be sworn in as Iceland's prime minister by the end of the week.

Her moment in the international spotlight comes at the most horrendous moment in her nation's recent history: As the global credit crisis broke, the collapse of Iceland's grossly over-leveraged economy was followed smartly by the implosion of its currency and banks. Now its government has gone the same way, the first in the world to succumb to the backwash from the crisis. the rest