- Berlin mayor Klaus Wowereit
On Monday, Jan. 4, Annise Parker will be sworn in as mayor of Houston. Houston will become the largest city in the world with a lesbian mayor and the second largest city with a gay or lesbian mayor.
Houston and Paris have approximately the same populations, the ranking might change next year with the new U.S. census. The number used here is the latest estimate from the U.S. Census Bureau and the official French population estimate.
California and New York are tied as the states with the most LGBT mayors (four each). Massachusetts and Maryland each have three. Texas has two. (A third, the mayor of San Angelo, resigned earlier this year). Florida and Oregon also each have two.
California’s four cities with gay mayors include a total population of about 200,000. New York’s four mayors govern a total population of fewer than 50,000.
Germany and Spain are the only other countries in the world with more than one LGBT mayor.
That means that as of next week, Texas has more LGBT mayors than all but two other countries in the world. Take that liberal Canada.
|
Name |
City |
Population |
| Klaus Wowereit (G) | Berlin, Germany |
3,431,675 |
| Annise Parker (L) | Houston, Tex. |
2,208,180 |
| Bertrand Delanoë (G) | Paris, France |
2,203,817 |
| Ole von Beust (G) | Hamburg, Germany |
1,800,000 |
| Sam Adams (G) | Portland, Ore. |
550,396 |
| Jerónimo Saavedra Acevedo (G) | Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain |
381,123 |
| Corine Mauch (L) | Zurich, Switzerland |
347,517 |
| David Cicilline (G) | Providence, R.I. |
176,862 |
| E. Denise Simmons (L) | Cambridge, Mass. |
101,388 |
| Mike Gin (G) | Redondo Beach, Calif. |
66,882 |
| Kevin Burns (G) | North Miami, Fla. |
59,880 |
| Steve Pougnet (G) | Palm Springs, Calif. |
47,906 |
| Christopher Cabaldon (G) | West Sacramento, Calif. |
47,511 |
| Kevin Dumas (G) | Attleboro, Mass. |
42,833 |
| Mitch Ward (G) | Manhattan Beach, Calif. |
36,536 |
| Jeffrey Slavin (G) | Chevy Chase, Md. |
32,803 |
| Mary Clare Higgins (L) | Northampton, Mass. |
28,411 |
| Jim Ireton (G) | Salisbury, Md. |
27,833 |
| Bill Hanauer (G) | Ossining, N.Y. |
23,798 |
| Craig Covey (G) | Ferndale, Mich. |
21,112 |
| Gary Resnick (G) | Wilton Manors, Fla. |
12,616 |
| Maurice Richard (G) | Bécancour, Québec, Canada |
11,051 |
| Stu Rasmussen (T) | Silverton, Ore. |
9,433 |
| Tim Eustace (G) | Maywood, N.J. |
9,145 |
| John Shields (G) | Nyack, N.Y. |
6,833 |
| Pete Fosselman (G) | Kensington, Md. |
1,946 |
| Elic Senter (G) | Franklinton, N.C. |
1,946 |
| Jim Gaughan (G) | Altamont, N.Y. |
1,701 |
| Matt Ganssle (G) | Kemp, Tex. |
1281 |
| Charles Palermo (G) | Red Creek, N.Y. |
485 |
| Francisco Maroto (G) | Campillo de Ranas, Spain |
184 |
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(G)= gay (L)=lesbian (T)=transgender
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