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It may not have grabbed many of the headlines this month – what with snow in the UK, fire in Australia and Holocaust denial within the Catholic Church – but on Sunday 1st February the world’s first openly gay Prime Minister or state leader took office. Johanna Sigurdardottir is now the Icelandic Prime Minister, replacing Geir Haarde (remember his car being pelted with eggs?). If sexuality is no longer a barrier to holding even the highest public office, some have claimed that prejudice & discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation has been more or less eliminated.