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Wednesday, 26 September, 2012
Election of gay politicians in Biel a 'non-theme'
Being a gay politician isn’t a big deal anymore. But this weekend the canton of Bern’s bilingual city of Biel put the issue back on the front pages. Voters there elected a city government with not just one homosexual—but three. That’s in fact a majority of the five-person executive. One of them is Beat Feurer from the right-wing Swiss People’s Party. He made headlines several years ago as the first president of the Gay People’s Party Association. The gay rights group Pink Cross hailed the news from Biel as a landmark. And WRS’s Jordan Davis asked Feurer if he considered being part of a majority-gay government a victory for gay rights:
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