Sunday, June 1, 2008

Portland elects its first openly gay mayor

AP and KGW8

PORTLAND, Ore. -- Commissioner Sam Adams easily won the Portland mayoral race, making this city the largest in the U.S. to ever elect an openly gay mayor.

"I'm running not to be a gay mayor, but a great mayor," he said after delivering his victory speech. "But I'm very cognizant, very aware that I'm the first openly gay mayor of a major American city. That's a real honor."

With a population of more than 500,000, Portland is by far the largest city in a state that in 2004 voted to amend its constitution to declare that marriage is only legal when it's between a man and a woman.

Asked if it was odd that he can be mayor -- but not married -- in Oregon, Adams said it was "surreal."

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