"When I became Prime Minister of Iceland, at the beginning of 2009, Icelandic society had changed enormously from the time Jónína and I first fell in love in 1985. So much so, that the fact that I had a same-sex spouse was absolutely no issue in Iceland. But the news of my relationship with Jónina immediately caused a lot of attention across the globe and the international media spread the word that the first openly homosexual Prime Minister in the world had come into power."
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir i Huffington Post om reaktionerna på att hon år 2009 blev isländsk statsminister.
