new beginnings

Berlin's openly gay mayor, Klaus Wowereit re-elected, wins by landslide. Seen here with his boyfriend, the triumph is made sweeter by the fact that his opponent cracked some joke about the city needing a 'first lady' again. (Ha.)

Hamburg's mayor is gay too but he's in the conservative party and doesn't like to bring it up, ever.

Johannes saw him in a gay bar once with his current boytoy. Said he's so different from how he comes across on TV. Limp-wristed diva trying to keep his hands still for the grandparents who put him in office...

I wonder how he felt when he saw Klaus on the cover of yesterday's paper: out, happy, victorious, his lover by his side.... I wanna take him out to some wide, flowered meadow, and give him a big hug right there, where not a critical eye can stiffen his posture and only the grass and sky frame his shadow.