Jacinda Ardern becomes first New Zealand PM to march in gay pride parade

[zebrapenis]

More than 25,000 people watched the parade in Auckland on Saturday night, cheering as the prime minister strolled down Ponsonby Road flanked by her finance minister, Grant Robertson, a gay man, and Louisa Wall, a Labour MP who is gay.

This is a big deal because countries like Australia still have a long way to go, and one hopes the rest of the Commonwealth follow her example.

[Zeitgeist]

@zebrapenis:

More than 25,000 people watched the parade in Auckland on Saturday night, cheering as the prime minister strolled down Ponsonby Road flanked by her finance minister, Grant Robertson, a gay man, and Louisa Wall, a Labour MP who is gay.

This is a big deal because countries like Australia still have a long way to go, and one hopes the rest of the Commonwealth follow her example.

She's really the first? I thought somebody else would've marched by now.

[zebrapenis]

Well, first in New Zealand.

[vaylon 0]

Every day western society gets a little more tolerant.