This is a list of political offices which have been held by a lesbian

Lesbian

Lesbian is a term most widely used in the English language to describe sexual and romantic desire between females. The word may be used as a noun, to refer to women who identify themselves or who are characterized by others as having the primary attribute of female homosexuality, or as an...

, gay

Gay

Gay is a word that refers to a homosexual person, especially a homosexual male. For homosexual women the specific term is "lesbian"....

, bisexual or transgender

Transgender

Transgender is a general term applied to a variety of individuals, behaviors, and groups involving tendencies to vary from culturally conventional gender roles....

 person, with details of the first holder of each office. It should only list people who came out

Coming out

Coming out is a figure of speech for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people's disclosure of their sexual orientation and/or gender identity....

 as LGBT before or during their terms in office; it should not list people who came out only after retiring from politics, or people who were outed by reference sources only after their death.

The year in brackets refers to the year which the officeholder was elected as an openly LGBT person. If he or she came out during term of office it is referred to after the year in brackets.

It is ordered by country, by dates of appointment. Former countries are also to be listed.

European Commission

European Commission

The European Commission is the executive body of the European Union. The body is responsible for proposing legislation, implementing decisions, upholding the Union's treaties and the general day-to-day running of the Union....

• European Commissioner for Trade
  European Commissioner for Trade
  The European Commissioner for Trade is the member of the European Commission responsible for the European Union's common commercial policy...
  
  : Peter Mandelson
  Peter Mandelson
  Peter Benjamin Mandelson, Baron Mandelson, PC is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament for Hartlepool from 1992 to 2004, served in a number of Cabinet positions under both Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, and was a European Commissioner...
  
   - 2004 (British
  United Kingdom
  The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
  
  )

European Parliament

Member of the European Parliament

A Member of the European Parliament is a person who has been elected to the European Parliament. The name of MEPs differ in different languages, with terms such as europarliamentarian or eurodeputy being common in Romance language-speaking areas.When the European Parliament was first established,...

• Austria
  Austria
  Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
  
  : Ulrike Lunacek
  Ulrike Lunacek
  Ulrike Lunacek is an Austrian politician. She used to be a Member of Parliament of the National Council of Austria, and since 2009 is a Member of the European Parliament for Austria....
  
   - 2009
• Denmark
  Denmark
  Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...
  
  : Torben Lund - 1999-2005
• Germany
  Germany
  Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
  
  : Lissy Gröner
  Lissy Gröner
  Lissy Gröner is a German politician and since 1989 Member of the European Parliament with the Social Democratic Party of Germany, part of the Socialist Group and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Culture and Education and its Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality.She is a...
  
  
• Italy
  Italy
  Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
  
  : Gianni Vattimo
  Gianni Vattimo
  Gianteresio Vattimo, also known as Gianni Vattimo is an internationally recognized Italian author, philosopher, and politician. Many of his works have been translated into English.-Biography:...
  
   - 1999
• Netherlands
  Netherlands
  The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
  
  : Herman Verbeek (PPR) - 1984
• Spain
  Spain
  Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
  
  : José María Mendiluce Pereiro (PSOE
  Spanish Socialist Workers' Party
  The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party is a social-democratic political party in Spain. Its political position is Centre-left. The PSOE is the former ruling party of Spain, until beaten in the elections of November 2011 and the second oldest, exceeded only by the Partido Carlista, founded in...
  
  -later joined the Greens
  European Green Party
  The European Green Party is the Green political party at European level. As such it is a federation of green parties in Europe.-History:...
  
  ) 1999-2004 - came out 2003
• United Kingdom
  United Kingdom
  The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
  
  : Michael Cashman
  Michael Cashman
  Michael Maurice Cashman is a British former actor, now a Labour politician. He has been a Member of the European Parliament for the West Midlands constituency since 1999.- Acting :...
  
   - 1999

Argentina

Argentina

Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

• First gay congressperson: Senator
  Argentine Senate
  The Argentine Senate is the upper house of the Argentine National Congress. It has 72 senators: three for each province and three for the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires...
  
   Osvaldo López - July 27, 2011 (married to another man).
• First gay deputy to the Buenos Aires City Legislature
  Buenos Aires City Legislature
  The Buenos Aires City Legislature is a central part of the Government of the City of Buenos Aires, as well as an architectural landmark in the city's Montserrat section.-History:...
  
  : María Rachid - Elected, taking office on December 10, 2011.

Brazil

Brazil

Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...

• First transgender elected (Alderperson): Kátia Tapety - Colônia do Piauí
  Colônia do Piauí
  Colônia do Piauí is a town and municipality in the state of Piauí in the Northeast region of Brazil.-References:...
  
   - 1992
• First transgender vice-mayor: Kátia Tapety - 2004
• Federal Deputy
  National Congress of Brazil
  The National Congress of Brazil is the legislative body of Brazil's federal government.Unlike regional legislative bodies – Legislative Assemblies and City Councils -, the Congress is bicameral, composed of the Federal Senate and the Chamber of Deputies .The Senate represents the 26 states and...
  
  : Clodovil Hernandez - 2006
• Leo Kret - 2008.
• Federal Deputy: Jean Wyllys - 2010 (considered the first openly gay activist)

Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

• First openly gay political candidate, regardless of electoral status: Robert Douglas Cook - 1979
• First transgender candidate, regardless of electoral status: Jamie Lee Hamilton
  Jamie Lee Hamilton
  Jamie Lee Hamilton is a Canadian politician and advocate of aboriginal people, residents of the city's poverty-stricken Downtown Eastside, and sex trade workers...
  
   - 1996
• First openly gay person elected to office: Raymond Blain
  Raymond Blain
  Raymond Blain was a Québécois politician. In 1986, he was the first openly gay candidate to be elected to public office in Canada. He represented the Saint-Jacques district at Montreal City Hall, succeeding Sammy Forcillo...
  
   (Montreal City Council
  Montreal City Council
  The Montreal City Council is the governing body of Montreal, Quebec. The head of the city government in Montreal is the mayor, who is first among equals in the City Council. The mayor is Gérald Tremblay, who is a member of the Union des citoyens et des citoyennes de l'Île de Montréal...
  
  ), 1986
• Member of Parliament
  Canadian House of Commons
  The House of Commons of Canada is a component of the Parliament of Canada, along with the Sovereign and the Senate. The House of Commons is a democratically elected body, consisting of 308 members known as Members of Parliament...
  
  :
  • Male: Svend Robinson
    Svend Robinson
    Svend Robinson is a former Canadian politician. He was a Member of Parliament in the Canadian House of Commons from 1979 to 2004, representing the suburban Vancouver-area constituency of Burnaby for the New Democratic Party...
    
     - elected 1979, came out in 1988
  • Female: Libby Davies
    Libby Davies
    Libby Davies is a Canadian Member of Parliament for the New Democratic Party , representing the riding of Vancouver East in Vancouver, British Columbia. In 2007, she was named Deputy Leader of the federal NDP, jointly with Thomas Mulcair.-Background:Davies was born in Aldershot, England and...
    
     - elected 1997, came out in 2001
  • Already out at first election: Bill Siksay
    Bill Siksay
    William Livingstone Siksay, former MP is a Canadian politician, and was the Member of Parliament who represented the British Columbia riding of Burnaby—Douglas for the New Democratic Party from 2004 to 2011.Receiving his high school diploma from McLaughlin Collegiate and Vocational Institute in...
    
     - 2004
• Senator
  Canadian Senate
  The Senate of Canada is a component of the Parliament of Canada, along with the House of Commons, and the monarch . The Senate consists of 105 members appointed by the governor general on the advice of the prime minister...
  
  :
  • Male: Laurier LaPierre
    Laurier LaPierre
    Laurier L. LaPierre, OC is a retired Canadian Senator and former broadcaster, journalist and author. He is a member of the Liberal Party of Canada....
    
     - 2001
  • Female: Nancy Ruth
    Nancy Ruth
    Nancy Ruth, CM is a Canadian Senator from Ontario. She was appointed to the Senate by Governor General Adrienne Clarkson, on the advice of Prime Minister Paul Martin, on March 24, 2005. While initially appointed as a Progressive Conservative, on March 28, 2006 she joined the Conservative caucus...
    
     - 2005
• Mayor
  Mayor
  In many countries, a Mayor is the highest ranking officer in the municipal government of a town or a large urban city....
  
   of large city: Glen Murray (Winnipeg
  Winnipeg
  Winnipeg is the capital and largest city of Manitoba, Canada, and is the primary municipality of the Winnipeg Capital Region, with more than half of Manitoba's population. It is located near the longitudinal centre of North America, at the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers .The name...
  
  ) - 1998 (world's first)
• Leader of a federal political party: Chris Lea
  Chris Lea
  Chris Lea is a designer, politician and political activist in Canada. He was the leader of the Green Party of Canada from 1990 to 1996. He is, to date, the party's longest-serving leader. Lea is notable for being the first openly gay political party leader in Canadian history.Lea lives in Toronto...
  
   (Green
  Green Party of Canada
  The Green Party of Canada is a Canadian federal political party founded in 1983 with 10,000–12,000 registered members as of October 2008. The Greens advance a broad multi-issue political platform that reflects its core values of ecological wisdom, social justice, grassroots democracy and...
  
  ) - 1990
• Federal cabinet minister
  Cabinet of Canada
  The Cabinet of Canada is a body of ministers of the Crown that, along with the Canadian monarch, and within the tenets of the Westminster system, forms the government of Canada...
  
  : Scott Brison
  Scott Brison
  Scott A. Brison, PC, MP is a Canadian politician from Nova Scotia, Canada. Brison has been the Member of Parliament for the riding of Kings-Hants since the 1997 federal election. Brison was originally elected as a Progressive Conservative but crossed the floor to join the Liberal Party in 2003...
  
   - 2004
• Provincial cabinet minister:
  • Male: Tim Stevenson
    Tim Stevenson
    Tim Stevenson is a Canadian politician and United Church clergyman. He is currently an elected member of the Vancouver City Council as a member of Vision Vancouver. He is one of two openly gay city councilors in Vancouver, along with Ellen Woodsworth.-Background:He received a B.A...
    
     (British Columbia
    British Columbia
    British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's provinces and is known for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu . Its name was chosen by Queen Victoria in 1858...
    
    ) - 2000
  • Female: Kathleen Wynne
    Kathleen Wynne
    Kathleen O. Wynne is a politician in Ontario, Canada. She is a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, representing the riding of Don Valley West for the Liberal Party.-Background:...
    
     (Ontario
    Ontario
    Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....
    
    ) - 2006
• Leader of a provincial party: Allison Brewer
  Allison Brewer
  Allison Brewer is a Canadian social activist and politician, and the former leader of the New Brunswick New Democratic Party. She has been particularly active in areas of lesbian and gay rights and access to abortion.-Biography:...
  
   (New Brunswick New Democratic Party
  New Brunswick New Democratic Party
  The New Brunswick New Democratic Party is a social-democratic provincial political party in New Brunswick, Canada linked with the federal New Democratic Party .-Origins and early history:...
  
  ) - 2005
• Leader of a provincial party with seats in a legislature: André Boisclair
  André Boisclair
  André Boisclair is a politician in Quebec, Canada. He was the leader of the Parti Québécois, a social democratic and separatist party in Quebec....
  
   (Parti Québécois
  Parti Québécois
  The Parti Québécois is a centre-left political party that advocates national sovereignty for the province of Quebec and secession from Canada. The Party traditionally has support from the labour movement. Unlike many other social-democratic parties, its ties with the labour movement are informal...
  
  ) - 2005
• Deputy Premier of a province: George Smitherman
  George Smitherman
  George Smitherman is a Canadian politician and broadcaster. He represented the provincial riding of Toronto Centre in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1999 to 2010, when he resigned to contest the mayoralty of Toronto in the 2010 municipal election...
  
   (Ontario
  Ontario
  Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....
  
  ) - 2006
• Provincial legislators:
  • British Columbia
    Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
    The Legislative Assembly of British Columbia is one of two components of the Parliament of British Columbia, the provincial parliament ....
    
    : Tim Stevenson
    Tim Stevenson
    Tim Stevenson is a Canadian politician and United Church clergyman. He is currently an elected member of the Vancouver City Council as a member of Vision Vancouver. He is one of two openly gay city councilors in Vancouver, along with Ellen Woodsworth.-Background:He received a B.A...
    
    
  • Manitoba
    Legislative Assembly of Manitoba
    The Legislative Assembly of Manitoba and the lieutenant governor form the Legislature of Manitoba, the legislature of the Canadian province of Manitoba. Fifty-seven members are elected to this assembly in provincial general elections, all in single-member constituencies with first-past-the-post...
    
    : Jim Rondeau
    Jim Rondeau
    Jim Rondeau is a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He has been a member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba since 1999, and is currently a cabinet minister in the provincial government of Greg Selinger. Rondeau is a member of the New Democratic Party.-Early life and career:Rondeau was born in...
    
    
  • Ontario
    Legislative Assembly of Ontario
    The Legislative Assembly of Ontario , is the legislature of the Canadian province of Ontario, and is the second largest provincial legislature of Canada...
    
    : George Smitherman
    George Smitherman
    George Smitherman is a Canadian politician and broadcaster. He represented the provincial riding of Toronto Centre in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1999 to 2010, when he resigned to contest the mayoralty of Toronto in the 2010 municipal election...
    
    , 1999
  • Quebec
    National Assembly of Quebec
    The National Assembly of Quebec is the legislative body of the Province of Quebec. The Lieutenant Governor and the National Assembly compose the Parliament of Quebec, which operates in a fashion similar to those of other British-style parliamentary systems.The National Assembly was formerly the...
    
    : André Boulerice
    André Boulerice
    André Boulerice is a Québécois politician and gay rights activist. He was a member of the National Assembly of Quebec for the riding of Sainte-Marie—Saint-Jacques in Montreal....
    
    
  • Newfoundland and Labrador
    Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly
    The Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly is one of two components of the General Assembly of Newfoundland and Labrador, the other being the Lieutenant-Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador. The Newfoundland and Labrador General Assembly meets in the Confederation Building at St...
    
    : Gerry Rogers
    Gerry Rogers
    Gerry Rogers is a Canadian documentary filmmaker and politician. She began her career with the National Film Board, and left in 1992 to form her own production company, Augusta Productions...
    
    , 2011
• City councillor in Vancouver:
  • Male: Gordon Price
    Gordon Price
    Gordon Price is a Canadian urban planner and former politician, who was an NPA member of Vancouver City Council from 1986 to 2002. He was the first openly gay member of Vancouver City Council....
    
     - 1986
  • Female: Ellen Woodsworth
    Ellen Woodsworth
    thumb|right|175px|Ellen Woodsworth speaking at a press conference in Vancouver, BC, Canada.Ellen Woodsworth is a former Vancouver City Councillor...
    
     - 2002
• City councillor in Winnipeg: Glen Murray - 1989
• City councillor in Toronto:
  • Male: Kyle Rae
    Kyle Rae
    Kyle Rae is a former Canadian politician. He was a city councillor for Ward 27 Toronto Centre-Rosedale in Toronto, Ontario from 1991 to 2010. Rae is now a self-described consultant.-Politics:...
    
     - 1991
  • Female: Kristyn Wong-Tam
    Kristyn Wong-Tam
    Kristyn Wong-Tam is a city councillor in Toronto, Canada. She is councillor for the Toronto Centre-Rosedale electoral district . She was elected to Toronto City Council in the 2010 city council election to replace Kyle Rae who had chosen to retire, defeating opponent Ken Chan in the heated race by...
    
     - 2010
• City councillor in Edmonton: Michael Phair
  Michael Phair
  Michael Phair is a Canadian politician, who served on Edmonton City Council from 1992 until 2007. He was the first openly gay elected politician in the province of Alberta.-External links:**...
  
   - 1992
• City councillor in Ottawa: Alex Munter
  Alex Munter
  Alexander Mathias Munter is a former politician and journalist in Ottawa, Canada's capital city. He is currently the Chief Executive Officer of the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario....
  
   and Stéphane Émard-Chabot
  Stéphane Émard-Chabot
  Stéphane Émard-Chabot is a former Ottawa city councillor and has been Assistant Dean of the University of Ottawa law school since 2001. A native of Sandy Hill he has a B.Comm and law degree from Ottawa and a degree from École Supérieure de Commerce de Paris...
  
   - 1994
• City councillor in Saskatoon: Lenore Swystun - 2000

Mexico

Mexico

The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...

• Member of Congress
  Congress of Mexico
  The Congress of the Union is the legislative branch of the Mexican government...
  
  :
  • Male: David Sánchez Camacho
    David Sánchez Camacho
    David Sánchez Camacho is a Mexican politician from Mexico City.A member of the Party of the Democratic Revolution Sánchez serves as deputy in the Mexican Chamber of Deputies to which he was elected in 2006...
    
     - 2006
  • Female: Patria Jiménez
    Patria Jiménez
    Patria Jimenez is Mexican politician and head of El Clóset de Sor Juana . In 1997, representing the PRD...
    
     - 1997

United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

Belgium

Belgium

Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...

• Member of Parliament, Party president and Minister-President of the Waloon Region: Elio di Rupo
  Elio Di Rupo
  Elio Di Rupo is a Belgian social-democratic politician and the Party Leader of the Socialist Party .-Biography:...
  
   (PS) - came out in 2001
• Member of the Flemish Government
  Flemish government
  The Flemish Government is the executive branch of the Flemish Community and the Flemish Region. It consists of up to a maximum of eleven ministers, chosen by the Flemish Parliament...
  
  , Pascal Smet
  Pascal Smet
  Pascal Smet , a member of the Socialist Party - Different , is a regional minister in Belgium.-Personal life:He was born in 1967 in Beveren-Waas. He was a member of the town council of Beveren-Waas from 1989 to 1997 and a member of the province council of East-Flanders . He earned a degree in Law...
  
   (SP.A) - came out in 2009

Czech Republic

Czech Republic

The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....

• Member of the Government: Gustáv Slamečka
  Gustáv Slamečka
  Gustáv Slamečka is a Czech politician of Slovak origin. He was the Minister of Transport in the caretaker government of Jan Fischer....
  
   - Minister of Transport (2009 - 2010)
• Member of the Senate: Václav Fischer (1999 - 2002)

Denmark

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

• Member of Parliament:
  • Female: Yvonne Herløv Andersen - 1998 she was also MP a few terms during the 70's and 80's, but not as openly lesbian.
  • Male: Torben Lund - 1998 came out in February 1998 while still an MP.

Finland

Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...

• Member of Parliament
  Parliament of Finland
  The Eduskunta , is the parliament of Finland. The unicameral parliament has 200 members and meets in the Parliament House in Helsinki. The latest election to the parliament took place on April 17, 2011.- Constitution :...
  
  : Pekka Haavisto
  Pekka Haavisto
  Pekka Haavisto is a Finnish politician representing the Green League. He was re-elected to the Finnish Parliament in the Finnish parliamentary election of March 2007 after an absence of 12 years. He is also a member of the Helsinki City Council.Haavisto was a member of the Parliament of Finland...
  
   - 1987
• Member of the Government: Minister of the Environment
  Minister of the environment
  An environment minister is a cabinet position in charged with protecting the natural environment and promoting wildlife conservation...
  
  : Pekka Haavisto
  Pekka Haavisto
  Pekka Haavisto is a Finnish politician representing the Green League. He was re-elected to the Finnish Parliament in the Finnish parliamentary election of March 2007 after an absence of 12 years. He is also a member of the Helsinki City Council.Haavisto was a member of the Parliament of Finland...
  
   - 1995
• Member of Parliament
  Parliament of Finland
  The Eduskunta , is the parliament of Finland. The unicameral parliament has 200 members and meets in the Parliament House in Helsinki. The latest election to the parliament took place on April 17, 2011.- Constitution :...
  
  : Oras Tynkkynen
  Oras Tynkkynen
  Oras Tynkkynen is a Member of the Parliament of Finland, representing the Green League. He served as the Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen's Advisor on Climate Policy. Also Tynkkynen is a Member of the City Council of Tampere and environmental activist. He has also held positions in numerous other...
  
   - 2004

France

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

• Member of Parliament
  Parliament of France
  The French Parliament is the bicameral legislature of the French Republic, consisting of the Senate and the National Assembly . Each assembly conducts legislative sessions at a separate location in Paris: the Palais du Luxembourg for the Senate, the Palais Bourbon for the National Assembly.Each...
  
  : André Labarrère - came out 1998
• Mayor of Paris: Bertrand Delanoë
  Bertrand Delanoë
  Bertrand Delanoë is a French politician, and has been the mayor of Paris since 2001. He is member of the Socialist Party . Delanoë was born in Tunis, Tunisia to a French-Tunisian father and a French mother...
  
   - came out 1998, elected 2001
• Government Member
  Government of France
  The government of the French Republic is a semi-presidential system determined by the French Constitution of the fifth Republic. The nation declares itself to be an "indivisible, secular, democratic, and social Republic"...
  
  : Roger Karoutchi
  Roger Karoutchi
  Roger Karoutchi is the French Ambassador to the OECD. He is a former Secretary of State to the French Prime Minister, with responsibility for Relations with Parliament.-Early life:...
  
  , Secretary of State for relations with parliament - came out 2009

Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

• Member of Parliament
  Bundestag
  The Bundestag is a federal legislative body in Germany. In practice Germany is governed by a bicameral legislature, of which the Bundestag serves as the lower house and the Bundesrat the upper house. The Bundestag is established by the German Basic Law of 1949, as the successor to the earlier...
  
  :
  • Male: Herbert Rusche
    Herbert Rusche
    Herbert Ludwig Rusche is a German politician and LGBT activist.Rusche was born in Bad Neuenahr. In his childhood, he lived in three different cities. After his schooling, he lived in Kaiserslautern, Heidelberg, Berlin, Hamburg, Offenbach am Main and Frankfurt am Main...
    
     - 1985
  • Female: Jutta Oesterle-Schwerin
    Jutta Oesterle-Schwerin
    Jutta Oesterle-Schwerin is a German politician, representative of the Social Democratic Party and later in life of Alliance '90/The Greens. She is the sister of Israeli historian Tom Segev.- Life :...
    
     - 1987
• Leader of a major political party: Guido Westerwelle
  Guido Westerwelle
  Guido Westerwelle [] is a German liberal politician, who, since 28 October 2009, has been serving as the Foreign Minister in the second cabinet of Chancellor Angela Merkel, and who was Vice Chancellor of Germany from 2009 to 2011. He is the first openly gay person to hold either of those positions...
  
   (FDP) came out 2004
• Mayors:
  • Berlin: Klaus Wowereit
    Klaus Wowereit
    Klaus Wowereit is a German politician, member of the SPD , and has been the Mayor of Berlin since the 2001 state elections, where his party won a plurality of the votes, 29.7%. He served as President of the Bundesrat in 2001/02. His SPD-led coalition was re-elected in the 2006 elections...
    
     - 2001
  • Hamburg: Ole von Beust
    Ole von Beust
    Carl-Friedrich Arp Ole Freiherr von Beust, generally called Ole von Beust, born April 13, 1955, in Hamburg, Germany, was First Mayor of the city-state of Hamburg from 31 October 2001 to 25 August 2010, serving as President of the Bundesrat from 1 November 2007 on for one year...
    
     - 2001
• Member of Government:
  • Vice Chancellor and Foreign Minister
    Foreign Minister of Germany
    The Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs is the head of the Federal Foreign Office and a member of the Cabinet of Germany. The current office holder is Guido Westerwelle...
    
    : Guido Westerwelle
    Guido Westerwelle
    Guido Westerwelle [] is a German liberal politician, who, since 28 October 2009, has been serving as the Foreign Minister in the second cabinet of Chancellor Angela Merkel, and who was Vice Chancellor of Germany from 2009 to 2011. He is the first openly gay person to hold either of those positions...
    
     (FDP), since 2009

Hungary

Hungary

Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...

• Member of Government:
  • Secretary of State for Human Resources: Gábor Szetey
    Gábor Szetey
    Gábor Szetey is a Hungarian politician and former Secretary of State for Human Resources in the Gyurcsány government, a role he held since July 2006. He is a member of the Hungarian Socialist Party.-Biography:...
    
     came out 2007
• Klára Ungár, politician

Ireland

Republic of Ireland

Ireland , described as the Republic of Ireland , is a sovereign state in Europe occupying approximately five-sixths of the island of the same name. Its capital is Dublin. Ireland, which had a population of 4.58 million in 2011, is a constitutional republic governed as a parliamentary democracy,...

• Senator
  Seanad Éireann
  Seanad Éireann is the upper house of the Oireachtas , which also comprises the President of Ireland and Dáil Éireann . It is commonly called the Seanad or Senate and its members Senators or Seanadóirí . Unlike Dáil Éireann, it is not directly elected but consists of a mixture of members chosen by...
  
  :
  • Male: David Norris (Dublin University
    Dublin University (constituency)
    University of Dublin is a university constituency in Ireland, which has been used to elect members of various legislative bodies including currently Seanad Éireann. Alternative names are Dublin University or Trinity College, Dublin...
    
    ) - 1987
    Members of the 18th Seanad
    This is a list of the members of the 18th Seanad Éireann, the upper house of the Oireachtas of Ireland. These Senators were elected or appointed in 1987, after the 1987 general election and served until the close of poll for the 19th Seanad in 1989.- Composition of the 18th Seanad :There are a...
    
    
  • Female: Katherine Zappone
    Katherine Zappone
    Katherine Zappone is a member of the Irish Human Rights Commission and an independent member of Seanad Éireann.Zappone was born in Washington state, and educated at Boston College , The Catholic University of America and University College Dublin...
    
     (Taoiseach's nominee) - 2011
    Members of the 24th Seanad
    This is a list of the members of the 24th Seanad Éireann, the upper house of the Oireachtas of Ireland. These Senators were elected on 27 April 2011 after postal voting closed. The Taoiseach's nominees were announced on 20 May 2011. The Seanad election took place 60 days after the 2011 general...
    
    
• County Councillor
  Local government in the Republic of Ireland
  Local government functions in the Republic of Ireland are mostly exercised by thirty-four local authorities, termed county or city councils, which cover the entire territory of the state. The area under the jurisdiction of each of these authorities corresponds to the area of each of the 34 LAU I...
  
  : Peter Kelly (Cork County Council
  Cork County Council
  Cork County Council is the local authority which is responsible for County Cork in Ireland. The Council is responsible for Housing and Community, Roads and Transportation, Urban planning and Development, Amenity and Culture, and Environment. The head of the council has the title of Cathaoirleach...
  
  ) - 1999
• Town Councillor
  Local government in the Republic of Ireland
  Local government functions in the Republic of Ireland are mostly exercised by thirty-four local authorities, termed county or city councils, which cover the entire territory of the state. The area under the jurisdiction of each of these authorities corresponds to the area of each of the 34 LAU I...
  
  : Malcolm Byrne (Gorey Town Council), 1999
• Member of Parliament (TD)
  Teachta Dála
  A Teachta Dála , usually abbreviated as TD in English, is a member of Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Oireachtas . It is the equivalent of terms such as "Member of Parliament" or "deputy" used in other states. The official translation of the term is "Deputy to the Dáil", though a more literal...
  
  : Dominic Hannigan
  Dominic Hannigan
  Dominic Hannigan is an Irish Labour Party politician and a member of Dáil Éireann. He was elected as a Teachta Dála for the Meath East constituency at the 2011 Irish general election, having previously served in the 23rd Seanad from 2007–11.- Early and personal life :Hannigan was born in...
  
   (Meath East) and John Lyons
  John Lyons (Dublin politician)
  John Lyons is an Irish Labour Party politician. He was elected as a Teachta Dála for the Dublin North West constituency at the 2011 general election...
  
   (Dublin North West
  Dublin North West (Dáil Éireann constituency)
  Dublin North–West is a parliamentary constituency represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas. The constituency elects 3 deputies...
  
  ) - both elected at the 2011 general election

Italy

Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

• Member of Parliament
  Italian Chamber of Deputies
  The Italian Chamber of Deputies is the lower house of the Parliament of Italy. It has 630 seats, a plurality of which is controlled presently by liberal-conservative party People of Freedom. Twelve deputies represent Italian citizens outside of Italy. Deputies meet in the Palazzo Montecitorio. A...
  
  :
  • Male: Angelo Pezzana - 1983
  • Male: Nichi Vendola
    Nichi Vendola
    Nicola "Nichi" Vendola is an Italian left-wing politician and currently the President of Apulia.-Life:Born in Terlizzi, province of Bari , Vendola had been a member of the Italian Communist Youth Federation since the age of 14; he studied literature in university, presenting a dissertation about...
    
     - 1992
  • Male: Daniele Capezzone
    Daniele Capezzone
    Daniele Capezzone is a centre-right Italian politician.He currently is the spokesman for the People of Freedom.From July 14, 2001 to November 4, 2006, he was secretary of the Italian Radicals, a liberal, pro-market economy, libertarian movement associated with the Transnational Radical Party...
    
    , bisexual - 2006
  • Female: Titti De Simone - 2001
  • Female: Paola Concia
    Paola Concia
    Anna Paola Concia is an Italian politician and gay rights activist. She was the first openly lesbian member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies.-Biography:...
    
     - 2008
  • Transgender: Vladimir Luxuria
    Vladimir Luxuria
    Vladimir Luxuria born Wladimiro Guadagno in Foggia, Apulia is an Italian actress, writer, politician and television personality. Luxuria was a Communist Refoundation Party member of the Italian parliament, belonging to Romano Prodi's L'Unione coalition...
    
     - 2006
• Member of the government:
  • Minister for Agriculture: Alfonso Pecoraro Scanio
    Alfonso Pecoraro Scanio
    Alfonso Pecoraro Scanio , is an Italian politician. He served as Minister of Environment in the second cabinet of Romano Prodi between 2006 and 2008....
    
     - 2000 came out later 2000 - again Minister of Environment in 2006 (bisexual)
• President of Region:
  • President of Apulia: Nichi Vendola
    Nichi Vendola
    Nicola "Nichi" Vendola is an Italian left-wing politician and currently the President of Apulia.-Life:Born in Terlizzi, province of Bari , Vendola had been a member of the Italian Communist Youth Federation since the age of 14; he studied literature in university, presenting a dissertation about...
    
     - 2005

Netherlands

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

• Member of Parliament
  States-General of the Netherlands
  The States-General of the Netherlands is the bicameral legislature of the Netherlands, consisting of the Senate and the House of Representatives. The parliament meets in at the Binnenhof in The Hague. The archaic Dutch word "staten" originally related to the feudal classes in which medieval...
  
  :
  • Male: Coos Huijsen (CHU) - came out 1977
  • Female: Evelien Eshuis (CPN
    Communist Party of the Netherlands
    The Communist Party of the Netherlands was a Dutch communist political party. The CPN is one of the predecessors of the GreenLeft.- Foundation :...
    
    ) - 1982
• Member of Government:
  • Male: Minister of Economic Affairs: Joop Wijn
    Joop Wijn
    Joannes Gerardus Wijn was Minister of Economic Affairs in the third Balkenende cabinet of the Netherlands....
    
     (CDA
    Christian Democratic Appeal
    The Christian Democratic Appeal is a centre-right Dutch Christian democratic political party. It suffered severe losses in the 2010 elections and fell from the first to the fourth place...
    
    ) - 2006
  • Male: Minister of Finance
    Ministry of Finance (Netherlands)
    The Ministry of Finance is the Dutch ministry of finance: it is occupied with the national budget, taxation and financial economic policy, including supervision of financial markets...
    
    : Jan Kees de Jager
    Jan Kees de Jager
    Jan Cornelis "Jan Kees" de Jager is a Dutch politician of the Christian Democratic Appeal . He is the Minister of Finance first in the Cabinet Balkenende IV from February 23, 2010 until October 14, 2010, and in the Cabinet Rutte since that date.He previously served as State Secretary for Finance...
    
     (CDA
    Christian Democratic Appeal
    The Christian Democratic Appeal is a centre-right Dutch Christian democratic political party. It suffered severe losses in the 2010 elections and fell from the first to the fourth place...
    
    ) - 2010
  • Female: Minister of Minister of Agriculture, Nature and Food Gerda Verburg
    Gerda Verburg
    Gerritje Verburg is a Dutch diplomat and former politician and trade union leader. Since July 1, 2011 she is Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to the Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome, succeeding former CDA politician Agnes van Ardenne...
    
     (CDA) - 2007
  • (note Ien Dales
    Ien Dales
    Catharina Isabella "Ien" Dales was a Dutch politician of the Labour Party .- References :...
    
    ' (PvdA, Minister of the Interior) sexual orientation was only revealed after her death)

Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

• Member of Parliament:
  • Female: Wenche Lowzow
    Wenche Lowzow
    Wenche Bryn Lowzow is a Norwegian politician in the Conservative Party of Norway. She was a member of the Norwegian parliament as a representative from Oslo between 1977–1985...
    
     - 1977-1985 came out 1979, reelected 1981
  • Male: Anders Hornslien
    Anders Hornslien
    Anders Hornslien is a Norwegian media personality and politician for the Labour Party.He was the leader of the local chapter of the Workers' Youth League from 1991 to 1993, and served as a member of Oslo city council in the same period...
    
     - came out 1994
• Member of Government:
  • Minister of Finance: Per Kristian Foss - 2001-2005
• City council chairman of Oslo: Erling Lae
  Erling Lae
  Erling Lae is a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party.He was born in Oslo, is a cand.philol. by education and formerly worked as a journalist. From 1981 to 1985 he was a political advisor in the Ministry of Consumer Affairs and Administration. He was elected to Oslo city council in 1991,...
  
   - 2000-2009

Poland

• City councillor, and first openly LGBT holder of any office: Krystian Legierski
  Krystian Legierski
  Krystian Legierski is a Polish LGBT activist, entrepreneur, member of the Greens 2004. In local elections in 2010 he won a seat in the Warsaw City Council, thus becoming the first openly gay politician elected to a political office in Poland.He was born in Poland, to a Polish mother and a...
  
   - 2010
• First openly gay member of parliament: Robert Biedroń
  Robert Biedron
  Robert Biedroń is a Polish LGBT activist and politician. He was previously a member of Social Democracy of the Republic of Poland party and the Democratic Left Alliance. Currently, he is a member of Palikot's Movement...
  
   - 2011
• First openly transsexual member of parliament: Anna Grodzka
  Anna Grodzka
  Anna Grodzka is a Polish politician. Grodzka was elected to the Sejm in the 2011 Polish parliamentary elections as a candidate for the liberal Palikot's Movement. She is the first ever transsexual MP in European history....
  
   - 2011

Portugal

Portugal

Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...

• Member of Parliament:
  • Male: Miguel Vale de Almeida
    Miguel Vale de Almeida
    Miguel Vale de Almeida is a Portuguese anthropologist, LGBT activist, and professor at the Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa in Lisbon. He is currently editor-in-chief of the journal Etnográfica and member of CEAS-ISCTE and APA...
    
     - 2009–2010

Spain

Spain

Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...

• Member of the Cortes: Jerónimo Saavedra Acevedo (PSOE
  Spanish Socialist Workers' Party
  The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party is a social-democratic political party in Spain. Its political position is Centre-left. The PSOE is the former ruling party of Spain, until beaten in the elections of November 2011 and the second oldest, exceeded only by the Partido Carlista, founded in...
  
  ) - Has been a member of the Congress of Deputies and the Senate since 1977 until 2004 with some interruptions - came out 2000
• Autonomic President: Jeronimo Saavedra Acevedo, President of the Canary Islands
  Canary Islands
  The Canary Islands , also known as the Canaries , is a Spanish archipelago located just off the northwest coast of mainland Africa, 100 km west of the border between Morocco and the Western Sahara. The Canaries are a Spanish autonomous community and an outermost region of the European Union...
  
   1983-1987 and 1991–1993
• Member of Government:
  • Minister of Public Administrations and of Education and Science: Jerónimo Saavedra (Public Administrations, 1993–1995 and of Education and Science 1995-1996)
• Mayor of a Provincial Capital: Jerónimo Saavedra, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
  Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
  Las Palmas de Gran Canaria commonly known as Las Palmas is the political capital, jointly with Santa Cruz, the most populous city in the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands and the ninth largest city in Spain, with a population of 383,308 in 2010. Nearly half of the people of the island...
  
   Incumbent since 2007
• Member of the Parliament of Catalonia
  Parliament of Catalonia
  The Parliament of Catalonia is the unicameral legislature of Catalonia. It is formed by 135 members , who are elected every four years in ordinary period, or extraordinarily upon dissolution and call of elections by the President of Catalonia, by universal suffrage in proportional lists with four...
  
   when openly gay: Miquel Iceta PSC
  Socialists' Party of Catalonia
  The Socialists' Party of Catalonia is a social-democratic political party in Catalonia, Spain resulting from the merge of two parties PSC Reagrupament led by Josep Pallach i Carolà and PSC Comgres. It is the Catalan referent of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party , and its Aranese section is...
  
  , since 1999
• Transgender town councillor: Manuela Trasobares
  Manuela Trasobares
  Manuela Trasobares is a Spanish artist, operatic mezzo-soprano, and politician.Trasobares was born in Figueres. She studied Fine Arts at the Facultat de Belles Arts de Sant Jordi of University of Barcelona, Painting and Sculpture in the ateliers Massana and Leonardo da Vinci in Barcelona and Bell...
  
   (ARDE) 2007 - at Geldo
  Geldo
  Geldo is a municipality of Spain in the Valencian Community, in the province of Castellón. It has a population of 716 and an area of 0.50 km²....
  
  , Castellon
  Castellón (province)
  Castellón or Castelló is a province in the northern part of the Valencian Community, Spain. It is bordered by the provinces of Valencia to the south, Teruel to the west, Tarragona to the north, and by the Mediterranean Sea to the east. The western side of the province is in the mountainous...
  
  

Sweden

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

• Member of Parliament
  Parliament of Sweden
  The Riksdag is the national legislative assembly of Sweden. The riksdag is a unicameral assembly with 349 members , who are elected on a proportional basis to serve fixed terms of four years...
  
  :
  • Male: Kent Carlsson (socialdemocrat) (s
    Swedish Social Democratic Party
    The Swedish Social Democratic Workers' Party, , contesting elections as 'the Workers' Party – the Social Democrats' , or sometimes referred to just as 'the Social Democrats' and most commonly as Sossarna ; is the oldest and largest political party in Sweden. The party was founded in 1889...
    
    ) - came out 1991, died in 1993
  • Female: Elisebeht Markström
    Elisebeht Markström
    Elisebeht Markström, is a Swedish social democratic politician who has been a member of the Riksdag since 1995. Markström lives openly homosexual in Sweden.-External links:* at the Riksdag website...
    
     (s
    Swedish Social Democratic Party
    The Swedish Social Democratic Workers' Party, , contesting elections as 'the Workers' Party – the Social Democrats' , or sometimes referred to just as 'the Social Democrats' and most commonly as Sossarna ; is the oldest and largest political party in Sweden. The party was founded in 1889...
    
    ) - came out publicly in 2006
• Member of Government
  Government of Sweden
  The Government of the Kingdom of Sweden is the supreme executive authority of Sweden. It consists of the Prime Minister and cabinet ministers appointed by the Prime Minister. The Government is responsible for their actions to the Riksdag, which is the legislative assembly...
  
  :
  • Minister of the Environment: Andreas Carlgren
    Andreas Carlgren
    Hemming Andreas Carlgren is a Swedish Centre Party politician, and a former Minister for the Environment in the Swedish government.- Education and career :...
    
     (c
    Centre Party (Sweden)
    The Centre Party is a centrist political party in Sweden. The party maintains close ties to rural Sweden and describes itself as "a green social liberal party". The ideology is sometimes called agrarian, but in a European context, the Centre Party can perhaps best be characterized as social...
    
    ) - 2006
  • Minister of Migration Affairs: Tobias Billström
    Tobias Billström
    Tobias Lennart Billström is a Swedish politician currently serving as Minister for Migration and Asylum Policy in the Swedish government. Billström, a member of the Moderate Party, has been a Member of Parliament since 2002 representing Malmö Municipality...
    
     (m
    Moderate Party
    The Moderate Party is a centre-right, liberal conservative political party in Sweden. The party was founded in 1904 as the General Electoral League by a group of conservatives in the Swedish parliament...
    
    ) - 2006 (bisexual)

Switzerland

Switzerland

Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....

• Member of Parliament:
  • Male: Claude Janiak
    Claude Janiak
    Claude Janiak is a Swiss politician of Polish origin, lawyer and President of the Swiss National Council for the 2005/2006 term. Member of the Social Democratic Party , he was elected to the National Council in 1999 in the canton of Basel-Land and reelected in 2003...
    
     - elected 1999 - speaker of House of Representatives 2006
  • Female: Doris Stump - elected 2003
• Mayor of a large city:
  • Female: Corine Mauch
    Corine Mauch
    Corine Mauch is a Swiss Social Democrat politician who serves as mayor of Zürich. She is the first female and first openly gay person to be elected mayor of the city....
    
     - elected 2009 - Mayor of Zurich (largest city in Switzerland), first openly gay mayor of a large Swiss city

United Kingdom

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

• 2008, First out Leader of a Scottish or British Political Party
  • Patrick Harvie
    Patrick Harvie
    Patrick Harvie is the co-convenor of the Scottish Green Party and Member of the Scottish Parliament for the Glasgow region...
    
    , Scottish Green Party
    Scottish Green Party
    The Scottish Green Party is a green party in Scotland. It has two MSPs in the devolved Scottish Parliament, Alison Johnstone, representing Lothian, and Patrick Harvie, for Glasgow.-Organisation:...
    
    , MSP 2003–Present

• 2011, First out female Leader of a Scottish or British Political Party
  • Ruth Davidson
    Ruth Davidson
    Ruth Davidson is a politician, former BBC journalist and the current leader of the Scottish Conservative & Unionist Party...
    
    , Scottish Conservative Party, MSP 2011-Present

House of Commons

• 1976, First Outed (female) MP
  • Maureen Colquhoun
    Maureen Colquhoun
    Maureen Morfydd Colquhoun is a British economist and Labour Party politician.-Education:She attended the London School of Economics and later worked as a literary research assistant.-Political career:...
    
    , Labour
    Labour Party (UK)
    The Labour Party is a centre-left democratic socialist party in the United Kingdom. It surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after...
    
    , MP 1974-1979

• 1984, First (Labour) MP to come out in office,
  • Chris Smith
    Chris Smith, Baron Smith of Finsbury
    Christopher "Chris" Robert Smith, Baron Smith of Finsbury PC is a British Labour Party politician, and a former Member of Parliament and Cabinet Minister...
    
    , Labour, MP 1983-2005

• May 1997, First (Labour) MP to be out before office
  • Stephen Twigg
    Stephen Twigg
    Stephen Twigg is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Labour Co-operative Member of Parliament for Liverpool West Derby since 2010. He previously served as the Member of Parliament for Enfield Southgate from 1997 to 2005, when he lost his seat. He came to national prominence in 1997...
    
    , Labour, MP 1997-2005, 2010–Present

• Sep 1997, First (Labour) Female MP to come out in office
  • Angela Eagle
    Angela Eagle
    Angela Eagle is a British Labour Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Wallasey since 1992. She served as the Minister of State for Pensions and Ageing Society from June 2009 until May 2010. Eagle was elected to the Shadow Cabinet in October 2010 and was appointed by Ed...
    
    , Labour, MP 1992–Present

• May 2001, First out Plaid Cymru MP
  • Adam Price
    Adam Price
    Adam Price is a politician in Wales, and former Plaid Cymru Member of Parliament for Carmarthen East and Dinefwr. He was elected to Parliament in the 2001 general election and re-elected in 2005 but stood down at the 2010 election...
    
    , Plaid Cymru
    Plaid Cymru
    ' is a political party in Wales. It advocates the establishment of an independent Welsh state within the European Union. was formed in 1925 and won its first seat in 1966...
    
    , MP 2001-2010

• 2002, First Conservative MP to come out
  • Alan Duncan
    Alan Duncan
    Alan James Carter Duncan is a British Conservative Party politician. He is the Member of Parliament for Rutland and Melton, and a Minister of State in the Department for International Development....
    
    , Conservative, MP 1992–Present

• Jan 2005 First (Labour) MP to come out as HIV positive
  • Chris Smith
    Chris Smith, Baron Smith of Finsbury
    Christopher "Chris" Robert Smith, Baron Smith of Finsbury PC is a British Labour Party politician, and a former Member of Parliament and Cabinet Minister...
    
    , Labour, MP 1983-2005

• May 2005, First out Liberal Democrat MP
  • Stephen Williams
    Stephen Williams (politician)
    Stephen Roy Williams is a British Liberal Democrat politician who was first elected as the Member of Parliament for Bristol West in the 2005 general election, being re-elected with an increased majority in May 2010...
    
    , Liberal Democrats, MP 2005–Present

• May 2005, First Conservative MP to be out before office
  • Nick Herbert
    Nick Herbert
    Nicholas Le Quesne "Nick" Herbert is a British Conservative Party politician and the Member of Parliament for Arundel and South Downs...
    
    , Conservative, MP 2005–Present

• May 2006, First (Labour) MP to enter into a civil partnership
  • David Borrow
    David Borrow
    David Stanley Borrow is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament for South Ribble from 1997 to 2010.-Education:...
    
    , Labour, MP 1997-2010

• 2008, First (Labour) Female MP to enter into a civil partnership
  • Angela Eagle
    Angela Eagle
    Angela Eagle is a British Labour Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Wallasey since 1992. She served as the Minister of State for Pensions and Ageing Society from June 2009 until May 2010. Eagle was elected to the Shadow Cabinet in October 2010 and was appointed by Ed...
    
    , Labour, MP 1992–Present

• 2010, First (Conservative) Female MP to be out before office
  • Margot James
    Margot James
    Margot James MP is a British politician and entrepreneur. She is currently a Vice Chairman of the Conservative Party with responsibility for women, and the Member of Parliament for the consituency of Stourbridge. She is the first openly lesbian MP in the Conservative Party...
    
    , Conservative, MP 2010–Present

European Parliament

European Parliament

The European Parliament is the directly elected parliamentary institution of the European Union . Together with the Council of the European Union and the Commission, it exercises the legislative function of the EU and it has been described as one of the most powerful legislatures in the world...

• Jan 1999, First out UK MEP
  • Tom Spencer
    Tom Spencer (politician)
    Thomas Newnham Bayley Spencer is a British Conservative politician and former Member of the European Parliament.Spencer was educated at Pangbourne Nautical College and the University of Southampton. He served as Conservative MEP for Derbyshire from 1979–1984, Conservative MEP for Surrey West from...
    
    , Conservative, MEP 1979-1984, 1989-1999

• Jun 1999, First UK MEP to be out before office
  • Michael Cashman
    Michael Cashman
    Michael Maurice Cashman is a British former actor, now a Labour politician. He has been a Member of the European Parliament for the West Midlands constituency since 1999.- Acting :...
    
    , Labour, MEP 1999–Present

• 2009, First female UK MEP to be out before office
  • Nikki Sinclaire
    Nikki Sinclaire
    Nicole Sinclaire is a European politician from the United Kingdom and is a current MEP.Educated at the University of Canterbury graduating with a Bachelor of Laws qualification. Sinclaire has worked for Lloyds as a 'problem troubleshooter' was employed as a Gateway store manager and worked in...
    
    , United Kingdom Independence Party (now Independent), MEP, 2009-present

Scottish Parliament

Scottish Parliament

The Scottish Parliament is the devolved national, unicameral legislature of Scotland, located in the Holyrood area of the capital, Edinburgh. The Parliament, informally referred to as "Holyrood", is a democratically elected body comprising 129 members known as Members of the Scottish Parliament...

• at least by 2000, First out (Scottish Liberal Democrat) MSP
  • Iain Smith, Scottish Liberal Democrats
    Scottish Liberal Democrats
    The Scottish Liberal Democrats are one of the three state parties within the federal Liberal Democrats; the others being the Welsh Liberal Democrats and the Liberal Democrats in England...
    
    , MSP 1999–2011

• 2003, First out Female MSP
  • Margaret Smith, Scottish Liberal Democrats
    Scottish Liberal Democrats
    The Scottish Liberal Democrats are one of the three state parties within the federal Liberal Democrats; the others being the Welsh Liberal Democrats and the Liberal Democrats in England...
    
    , 1999–2011 (Edinburgh West)

• 2003, First out Scottish Green MSP
  • Patrick Harvie
    Patrick Harvie
    Patrick Harvie is the co-convenor of the Scottish Green Party and Member of the Scottish Parliament for the Glasgow region...
    
    , Scottish Green Party
    Scottish Green Party
    The Scottish Green Party is a green party in Scotland. It has two MSPs in the devolved Scottish Parliament, Alison Johnstone, representing Lothian, and Patrick Harvie, for Glasgow.-Organisation:...
    
    , MSP 2003–Present

• 2007, First out SNP MSP
  • Joe FitzPatrick
    Joe FitzPatrick
    Joe FitzPatrick is a Scottish politician, and member for the Scottish National Party for Dundee West in the Scottish Parliament since May 2007, succeeding retiring Labour MSP Kate Maclean.-Life and career:...
    
    , Scottish National Party
    Scottish National Party
    The Scottish National Party is a social-democratic political party in Scotland which campaigns for Scottish independence from the United Kingdom....
    
    , MSP 2007–Present

• 2011, First out Scottish Conservative MSP
  • Ruth Davidson
    Ruth Davidson
    Ruth Davidson is a politician, former BBC journalist and the current leader of the Scottish Conservative & Unionist Party...
    
    , Scottish Conservative Party, MSP 2011-Present

Welsh Assembly

• First out AM,
  • Ron Davies, Labour, 1999-2003

South Africa

South Africa

The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...

• Member of Parliament
  Parliament of South Africa
  The Parliament of South Africa is South Africa's legislature and under the country's current Constitution is composed of the National Assembly and the National Council of Provinces....
  
  : Mike Waters
  Mike Waters (politician)
  Mike Waters is a South African politician, currently the Shadow Minister of Health, and a Member of Parliament for the opposition Democratic Alliance.-Early life:...
  
   - 1999
• High Court Judge
  High Court of South Africa
  The High Courts are superior courts of law in South Africa. The courts were created in 1996 on the adoption of the Constitution of South Africa, and inherited the jurisdiction of the provincial and local divisions of the former Supreme Court of South Africa...
  
  : Edwin Cameron
  Edwin Cameron
  Edwin Cameron is a South African Rhodes scholar and current Constitutional Court justice. Cameron served as a Supreme Court of Appeal judge from 2000 to 2008. He was the first senior South African official to state publicly that he was living with HIV/AIDS...
  
   - 1995
• Constitutional Court Justice
  Constitutional Court of South Africa
  The Constitutional Court of South Africa was established in 1994 by South Africa's first democratic constitution: the Interim Constitution of 1993. In terms of the 1996 Constitution the Constitutional Court established in 1994 continues to hold office. The court began its first sessions in February...
  
  : Edwin Cameron
  Edwin Cameron
  Edwin Cameron is a South African Rhodes scholar and current Constitutional Court justice. Cameron served as a Supreme Court of Appeal judge from 2000 to 2008. He was the first senior South African official to state publicly that he was living with HIV/AIDS...
  
   - 2008

Israel

Israel

The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

• Member of Knesset (Parliament)
  Knesset
  The Knesset is the unicameral legislature of Israel, located in Givat Ram, Jerusalem.-Role in Israeli Government :The legislative branch of the Israeli government, the Knesset passes all laws, elects the President and Prime Minister , approves the cabinet, and supervises the work of the government...
  
  : Uzi Even
  Uzi Even
  Professor Uzi Even is an Israeli professor of chemistry in Tel Aviv University and a former politician.-Biography:Born in Haifa to eastern European Jewish immigrants, Even studied for a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Physics at the Technion, and a Ph.D at Tel Aviv University...
  
   (elected 2003)
• City councillors
  City council (Israel)
  A City council is the official designation of a city within Israel's system of local government.City council status may be granted by the Interior Minister to a municipality, usually a local council, whose population surpasses 20,000 and whose character is urban, defined as having areas zoned for...
  
  :
  • Tel-Aviv: Michal Eden (elected 1998), Itai Pinkas
    Itai Pinkas
    Itai J. Pinkas is a leader of the Israeli gay, lesbian, bisexual and transsexual community . Pinkas served as chair of the national LGBT association in Israel. He is a member of the Tel Aviv-Jaffa City Council and advises the mayor on LGBT affairs. -Biography:Pinkas grew up in Herzliya and is a...
    
     (first gay man; elected 2003)
  • Jerusalem: Saar Nathaniel (elected 2003)

Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

• Transgender city councillor: Aya Kamikawa
  Aya Kamikawa
  ) is a Tokyo municipal official, the first transsexual person to seek elected office in Japan. She was elected in April 2003. Kamikawa, a 35-year-old writer, submitted her election application papers with a blank space for "sex."...
  
   - 2003
• Lesbian,Osaka congressist: Kanako Otsuji
  Kanako Otsuji
  is a Japanese LGBT rights activist and former member of the Osaka Prefectural Assembly . One of only seven women in the 110-member Osaka Assembly, Otsuji represented the Sakai-ku, Sakai City constituency.- Early life :...
  
   - 2005
• Gay, Tokyo ward councillor: Taiga Ishikawa
  Taiga Ishikawa
  is a Japanese politician and LGBT activist. He became the first openly gay male politician to win an election in Japanese history when he was elected in April 2011 to a seat in the Toshima ward assembly....
  
   - 2011

Nepal

Nepal

Nepal , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked sovereign state located in South Asia. It is located in the Himalayas and bordered to the north by the People's Republic of China, and to the south, east, and west by the Republic of India...

• Constituent Assembly Member
  Nepalese Constituent Assembly
  The Nepalese Constituent Assembly is a unicameral body of 601 members formed as a result of the Constituent Assembly election that was held on April 10, 2008. The Constituent Assembly is tasked with writing a new constitution, and it will act as the interim legislature for a term of two years...
  
  : Sunil Babu Pant
  Sunil Babu Pant
  Sunil Babu Pant is the first openly gay politician in Nepal. He is one of five members from the CPN in the constituent assembly, and is also head of the Blue Diamond Society, the only gay rights group in Nepal...
  
   - 2008

Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

• Senator
  Australian Senate
  The Senate is the upper house of the bicameral Parliament of Australia, the lower house being the House of Representatives. Senators are popularly elected under a system of proportional representation. Senators are elected for a term that is usually six years; after a double dissolution, however,...
  
  :
  • Male senator: Bob Brown
    Bob Brown
    Robert James Brown is an Australian senator, the inaugural Parliamentary Leader of the Australian Greens and was the first openly gay member of the Parliament of Australia...
    
     - 1996
  • Female senator: Penny Wong
    Penny Wong
    Penelope "Penny" Ying-yen Wong , is an Australian Labor Party senator for South Australia and the Federal Minister for Finance and Deregulation. Wong was the first Australian Minister for Climate Change and Water. Her appointment was amended on 26 February 2010, by the Prime Minister, to the...
    
     - 2002
• Member of Government:
  • Minister for Climate Change and Water: Penny Wong - 2007
• State MPs:
  • Australian Capital Territory
    Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly
    The Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly is the unicameral legislature of the Australian Capital Territory...
    
    : Andrew Barr
    Andrew Barr
    Andrew Barr is an Australian politician and Deputy Chief Minister of the Australian Capital Territory. He has been an Australian Labor Party member for the seat of Molonglo in the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly since 5 April 2006, after being elected on a countback to replace...
    
     - 2006
  • New South Wales
    Parliament of New South Wales
    The Parliament of New South Wales, located in Parliament House on Macquarie Street, Sydney, is the main legislative body in the Australian state of New South Wales . It is a bicameral parliament elected by the people of the state in general elections. The parliament shares law making powers with...
    
    : Paul O'Grady
    Paul O'Grady (politician)
    Paul Thomas Francis O'Grady is a former Australian politician. He was a Labor member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1988 to 1996....
    
     came out 1990
  • South Australia
    Parliament of South Australia
    The Parliament of South Australia is the bicameral legislature of the Australian state of South Australia. It consists of the Legislative Council and the House of Assembly. It follows a Westminster system of parliamentary government....
    
    : Ian Hunter
    Ian Hunter (politician)
    Ian Keith Hunter is an Australian politician, representing the Australian Labor Party in the South Australian Legislative Council since the 2006 state election...
    
     - 2006
  • Tasmania
    Parliament of Tasmania
    The Parliament of Tasmania consists of the Tasmanian Legislative Council, Tasmanian House of Assembly and the Monarch represented by the Governor of Tasmania....
    
    : Bob Brown
    Bob Brown
    Robert James Brown is an Australian senator, the inaugural Parliamentary Leader of the Australian Greens and was the first openly gay member of the Parliament of Australia...
    
     - 1983
  • Victoria
    Parliament of Victoria
    The Parliament of Victoria is the bicameral legislature of the Australian state of Victoria. It follows a Westminster-derived parliamentary system and consists of The Queen, represented by the Governor of Victoria; the Legislative Council ; and the Legislative Assembly...
    
    : Andrew Olexander
    Andrew Olexander
    Andrew Phillip Olexander is an Australian politician. He was an independent member of the Victorian Legislative Council representing Silvan Province from November 2005 to November 2006, after being expelled from the parliamentary Liberal Party, which he had represented since 1999.His career has...
    
      - 1999
  • Western Australia
    Parliament of Western Australia
    The Parliament of Western Australia consists of the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly . The Parliament sits at Parliament House in Harvest Terrace, Perth....
    
    : Giz Watson
    Giz Watson
    -Biography:Watson was born in 1957 in Eastleigh, a town in Hampshire, England, and emigrated to Western Australia in September 1967, travelling extensively through the state. She studied environmental science at Murdoch University and, after leaving university to do voluntary work for a couple of...
    
     - 1997
  • State or territory cabinet minister: Andrew Barr
    Andrew Barr
    Andrew Barr is an Australian politician and Deputy Chief Minister of the Australian Capital Territory. He has been an Australian Labor Party member for the seat of Molonglo in the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly since 5 April 2006, after being elected on a countback to replace...
    
     - 2006
• Justice of the High Court of Australia
  High Court of Australia
  The High Court of Australia is the supreme court in the Australian court hierarchy and the final court of appeal in Australia. It has both original and appellate jurisdiction, has the power of judicial review over laws passed by the Parliament of Australia and the parliaments of the States, and...
  
  :
  • Male: Michael Kirby came out 1999
  • Female: Virginia Bell
    Virginia Bell
    Virginia "Ding Dong" Bell is a topless model and actress. She started her career in the 1950s as a burlesque dancer....
    
     (2009)

Guam

Guam

Guam is an organized, unincorporated territory of the United States located in the western Pacific Ocean. It is one of five U.S. territories with an established civilian government. Guam is listed as one of 16 Non-Self-Governing Territories by the Special Committee on Decolonization of the United...

• Member of Legislature
  Legislature of Guam
  The Legislature of Guam is the territorial legislature of Guam. The legislative branch of the unincorporated U.S. territory is unicameral, with a single house consisting of fifteen senators, serving for a two year term...
  
  : Benjamin Cruz
  Benjamin Cruz
  Benjamin "BJ" Cruz is an American judge and politician from Guam.-Early life and education:Born on March 3, 1951 in Guam, he is the second child and only son of Juan Quenga Cruz and Antonia Cruz Franquez...
  
   - 2004
• Supreme Court Justice: Benjamin Cruz
  Benjamin Cruz
  Benjamin "BJ" Cruz is an American judge and politician from Guam.-Early life and education:Born on March 3, 1951 in Guam, he is the second child and only son of Juan Quenga Cruz and Antonia Cruz Franquez...
  
   - 1997, Chief Justice 1999-2001 (came out 1995)

New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

• Member of Parliament
  New Zealand House of Representatives
  The New Zealand House of Representatives is the sole chamber of the legislature of New Zealand. The House and the Queen of New Zealand form the New Zealand Parliament....
  
  :
  • Female: Marilyn Waring
    Marilyn Waring
    Marilyn Waring, CNZM, D.Phil., D.Litt. is a New Zealand feminist, a politician, an activist for female human rights and environmental issues, an author and an academic, known for her contributions to feminist economics....
    
     (National
    New Zealand National Party
    The New Zealand National Party is the largest party in the New Zealand House of Representatives and in November 2008 formed a minority government with support from three minor parties.-Policies:...
    
    ) 1975–1984 (outed during office)
  • Female: Maryan Street
    Maryan Street
    Maryan Street is a Member of the New Zealand Parliament for the New Zealand Labour Party. In the 2005 elections, she became the first openly lesbian woman elected to the New Zealand Parliament.-Early years:...
    
     (Labour) 2005–Present (outed before office)
  • Male: Chris Carter
    Chris Carter (politician)
    Christopher Joseph Carter was an independent Member of Parliament in New Zealand, and a former member of the New Zealand Labour Party until his expulsion. Carter was a senior Cabinet Minister in the Fifth Labour Government of New Zealand, serving lastly as Minister of Education, Minister...
    
     (Labour
    New Zealand Labour Party
    The New Zealand Labour Party is a New Zealand political party. It describes itself as centre-left and socially progressive and has been one of the two primary parties of New Zealand politics since 1935....
    
    ) 1993–Present
  • Transsexual: Georgina Beyer
    Georgina Beyer
    Georgina Beyer was the world's first openly transsexual mayor, as well as the world's first openly transsexual Member of Parliament, and from 27 November 1999 until 14 February 2007 was an MP for the Labour Party in New Zealand.-Early life:Georgina Bertrand was born and assigned male at birth, and...
    
     (Labour) 1999-2007 (world's first)
• Cabinet Minister
  New Zealand Cabinet
  The Cabinet of New Zealand functions as the policy and decision-making body of the executive branch within the New Zealand government system...
  
  :
  • Male: Minister of Conservation, Minister of Ethnic Affairs, Minister of Local Government, Minister for Building Issues, Minister of Education
    Minister of Education (New Zealand)
    The Minister of Education is a minister in the government of New Zealand with responsibility for the country's schools, and is in charge of the Ministry of Education.The present Minister is Anne Tolley, a member of the National Party.-History:...
    
     and Minister Responsible for the Education Review Office
    New Zealand Education Review Office
    The Education Review Office or ERO is a relatively small state sector organisation of New Zealand tasked with reviewing and reporting publicly on the quality of education in all New Zealand schools...
    
    : Chris Carter
    Chris Carter (politician)
    Christopher Joseph Carter was an independent Member of Parliament in New Zealand, and a former member of the New Zealand Labour Party until his expulsion. Carter was a senior Cabinet Minister in the Fifth Labour Government of New Zealand, serving lastly as Minister of Education, Minister...
    
     (Labour) 2002-8
  • Female: Minister of Housing and Minister of ACC
    Accident Compensation Corporation
    The Accident Compensation Corporation is a New Zealand Crown entity responsible for administering the Accident Compensation Act 2001. The Act provides support to citizens, residents, and temporary visitors who have suffered personal injuries....
    
    : Maryan Street
    Maryan Street
    Maryan Street is a Member of the New Zealand Parliament for the New Zealand Labour Party. In the 2005 elections, she became the first openly lesbian woman elected to the New Zealand Parliament.-Early years:...
    
     (Labour) 2007-8
• Transsexual mayor: Georgina Beyer
  Georgina Beyer
  Georgina Beyer was the world's first openly transsexual mayor, as well as the world's first openly transsexual Member of Parliament, and from 27 November 1999 until 14 February 2007 was an MP for the Labour Party in New Zealand.-Early life:Georgina Bertrand was born and assigned male at birth, and...
  
  (Labour) 1995-1999 (world's first)