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	Klaus Wowereit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Klaus Wowereit with a drag queen at the 2001 Christopher Street Day in Berlin.
		Klaus Wowereit (born October 1, 1953 in Berlin) is a German politician, member of the SPD (Social Democratic Party of Germany), and currently mayor of Berlin (since 2001).
		Wowereit is one of the most famous German politicians who has openly declared himself to be homosexual.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Klaus_Wowereit (218 words)

	Berlin's Mayor says the city is not yet fully integrated - PRAVDA.Ru (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Klaus Wowereit was in Buenos Aires, Argentina, last week to attend to a series of cultural events aimed to strengthen ties between both capitals.
		Wowereit, the prominent member of the social democrat party that rules the city since 2001, believes Berlin reflects the existing divisions between Eastern and Western Germany that erupted in last month regional elections.
		According to Wowereit, the conflicts between the Eastern and the Western population of Germany are a matter of feelings.
	english.pravda.ru /printed.html?news_id=14472 (488 words)

	TIME Europe Magazine \| Big City Bosses - Berlin
		SVEN KAESTNER / AP Klaus Wowereit, the mayor of Berlin.
		Klaus Wowereit, the mayor of Berlin, is anything but conventional.
		Wowereit, 51, a member of the Social Democratic party (spd), was forced to close swimming pools, ask teachers to work longer hours without more pay, impose a hiring freeze for some municipal employees, and consolidate the city's three opera houses.
	www.time.com /time/europe/html/050516/wowereit.html (1099 words)

	Berlin elects its first-ever openly gay mayor
		Klaus Wowereit, a Social Democrat, takes over on an interim basis after the coalition that ruled the city for a decade collapsed amid a bank scandal and mounting debts.
		Wowereit, 47, was a little-known political figure before grabbing nationwide attention last weekend when he came out as gay at a party convention before his nomination.
		Wowereit becoming mayor "fits with the city's credo that it is known for its tolerance," said Dirk Schutt, 36 alias "Miss Gucci," wearing a fluorescent yellow dress with silver sequins and white go-go boots.
	tampabaycoalition.homestead.com /files/BerlinElectsGayMayor.htm (743 words)

	GMax - News: Moslem youths force Berlin HIV centre to re-locate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		While Mayor Klaus Wowereit held a news conference during a tourism trade fair at the city's International Congress Center to promote an officially sanction gay guide to Berlin and Germany, roving gangs of ethnic Kurdish and Palestinian teens smashed windows at the café in the city's funky Schoeneberg district.
		Wowereit's fragile leftwing coalition of Social Democrats and former East Berlin communists adopted a "soft glove" approach to the rioting for two years in a row.
		Wowereit, 50, who was elected in June 2001 after telling Berlin voters "I'm gay and that's good", appeared at German-theme parties along with a lederhosen-clad gay Bavarian shoe-plattler dancing and yodelling troupe and two German drag queens called Fraulein Piggy and Gene Pascal.
	www.gmax.co.za /look04/03/19-germany.html (774 words)

	CNN.com - Berliners head for crucial poll - October 19, 2001
		Social Democrat Klaus Wowereit, the first openly gay mayor of a German metropolis, is the front-runner after a slick campaign.
		Wowereit hopes to rule together with the Green Party, but with the Greens stagnating at about 10 percent, he may need a third partner to govern, so the former communists could be invited on board.
		Wowereit is running against conservative businessman Frank Steffel, 35, and the charismatic Gregor Gysi, a Berlin lawyer who used to head the ex-communist Party of Democratic Socialism.
	edition.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/europe/10/19/berlin.elex (507 words)

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		Wowereit was not widely known until June, when he publicly identified himself as a gay man as his Social Democratic Party nominated him to serve as interim mayor.
		Wowereit said, "The signal from this election is that Berlin is a tolerant city, an international city, and it doesn't matter which skin color or religion or life orientation a person has." Lacking a majority in the Assembly, Wowereit must now form a governing coalition.
		Wowereit said that "tolerance" would be a factor in his decision.
	www.qrd.org /qrd/media/radio/thiswayout/summary/newswrap/2001/N709-10.29.2001 (1318 words)

	News & Politics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Klaus Wowereit became Germany's most famous homosexual in June when he outed himself in a spectacular manner just hours before a leading newspaper was about to reveal his secret.
		Wowereit, who needs the help of a junior partner in order to form a majority, said "tolerance" would be an important factor in his coalition decision.
		Wowereit, 48, brought the long-suffering Berlin SPD to 31 percent, according to TV projections, up some nine points from the last election in 1999 while the Christian Democrats plunged 16 points to 24 percent.
	www.planetout.com /news/article.html?2001/10/22/2 (586 words)

	sportaccord : Klaus Wowereit, Mayor, City of Berlin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Klaus Wowereit was born in Berlin on 1 October 1953.
		From 1995 to 1999 he was the deputy floor leader of the SPD in the Berlin House of Representatives and then served as floor leader from December 1999 to June 2001.
		Wowereit served as President of the Bundesrat from 1 November 2001 until 31 October 2002.
	www.sportaccord.com /vsite/vcontent/page/custom/0,8510,5035-163595-180810-34567-158419-custom-item,00.html (226 words)

	CNN.com - German politician outs himself - June 13, 2001
		Klaus Wowereit, 47, became a national celebrity and stunned the political establishment when he ended a speech to fellow Social Democrats (SPD) saying: "I am gay and that's a good thing."
		Wowereit is expected to preside over a minority government coalition with the left-leaning Greens, supported by the reform communist Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS), until new elections can be held in the autumn.
		Wowereit -- a lawyer who has been in the city assembly since 1995 -- is seen as the architect of the SPD's strategy to oust Diepgen.
	edition.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/europe/06/13/german.wowereit (482 words)

	Berlin Mayor Under Fire For Fetish Party \| Current Affairs \| Deutsche Welle \| 30.08.2005
		Berlin's gay mayor Klaus Wowereit hit back at conservative critics Tuesday who attacked his decision to extend the city's official welcome to an international homosexual sado-masochist fetish party.
		Wowereit told mass-market daily Bild that the German capital was a "tolerant and open" city that was pleased to have guests from all walks of life, even unconventional ones.
		German police officers in the western city of Aachen thought they had been the victims of a hoax call when they turned up at the home of a man who had called for their assistance.
	www.dw-world.de /dw/article/0,1564,1695502,00.html (363 words)

	Likely next mayor of Berlin declares he is gay, spurs debate on privacy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Wowereit's remark is resonating across the country as gay groups call for all other homosexual politicians to out themselves, while others wonder why he bothered to make it into an issue at all.
		Few outside Berlin political circles had heard of Wowereit until last week, when he was thrust to the fore as his party's candidate to replace Christian Democratic Mayor Eberhard Diepgen after the collapse of Berlin's governing coalition.
		Wowereit, 47, says his coming out wasn't all voluntary: He did so because of rumors that conservative tabloids were planning to make an issue of it, after news leaked that he told party leaders last week he was gay to warn that it could be used in the campaign.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2001/06/12/international1321EDT0570.DTL&type=printable (578 words)

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		He later commented that, "I have never conducted gay politics, but rather politics as a gay man." The 47-year-old Wowereit is an attorney who has served six years on the Berlin Assembly with little public notice.
		Wowereit was then elected by the Assembly by a vote of 89-to-78 with 2 abstentions.
		Wowereit is the second open gay to head a major European city, following the election of Bertrand Delanoë as mayor of Paris earlier this year.
	www.qrd.org /qrd/media/radio/thiswayout/summary/newswrap/2001/N690-06.18.2001 (1459 words)

	Guardian \| Gay mayor triumphs in Berlin
		The official preliminary results after 100% of the votes were counted gave Klaus Wowereit and the Social Democrats a resounding victory in yesterday's Berlin elections.
		With the Social Democrat vote rising from 22% to 29.7%, Mr Wowereit appeared to be in a position to govern without help from the city's controversial former communists, who took 22.6% of the vote, compared with 18% at the last election in 1999.
		The prime challenge facing Mr Wowereit will be to find ways of purging the city's finances and strengthening its economy at a time when it is being called upon to play an ever more important role both nationally and internationally.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4282076-103681,00.html (783 words)

	Advocate, The: The mayor is gay : Berlin mayor Klaus Wowereit has come from obscurity to prominence in just two years, ...
		Advocate, The: The mayor is gay : Berlin mayor Klaus Wowereit has come from obscurity to prominence in just two years, and now he is one of the most famous openly gay politicians in the world - and that's a good thing - Germany - Interview
		"So come on over!" Wowereit was scheduled to pitch Berlin as a gay destination at the Equality Forum, held in Philadelphia in late April and early May. Germany is a partner in the symposium, which was formerly known as Pridefest America.
		Fear that the press was about to out him pressured Wowereit to take matters into his own hands with a statement that immediately became a catchphrase across the country.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1589/is_2003_May_13/ai_102453331 (1536 words)

	PlanetOut News: Berlin mayor race is a battle in bad taste (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Klaus Wowereit, who electrified a dull race three months ago when he became the first politician from a major German party to declare his homosexuality, has since been accused by his conservative challenger Frank Steffel of having a "deformed character."
		Wowereit and Steffel were virtually unknown, both in Berlin and nationwide, when the campaign began in June.
		But Wowereit's admission, just after being nominated as the SPD candidate, that he is a homosexual turned him into a national celebrity overnight.
	www.planetout.com /news/article-print.html?2001/09/17/4 (934 words)

	towleroad: The Kinky are Welcome in Berlin
		Wowereit also gave a statement to the paper: "There's no question it is a flamboyant scene, but that is also Berlin.
		Aug 30, 2005 3:20:15 PM Interestingly enough, Klaus Wowereit is not the only openly gay mayor in Germany.
		We have an election in Germany in 3 weeks and Wowereit is one of the leading members of the social-democratic SPD who advocates the same kind of coaltion government he is leading in Berlin for Germany as a whole, namely a coaltion of the SPD with the communist and anti-american PDS.
	towleroad.typepad.com /towleroad/2005/08/the_kinky_are_w.html (592 words)

	afrol News - Your Portal to Africa!
		In an interview with the German news agency DPA, shortly before the Berlin meeting between Nujoma and Wowereit, the Namibian President was confronted with his earlier statements.
		Berlin mayor Klaus Wowereit was reported to be diplomatic on the issue.
		Wowereit, who only un-closeted last year, shortly before elections, has not wanted to make gay politics an issue.
	www.afrol.com /html/News2002/nam007_gays_berlin.htm (518 words)

	Ex-Communists Take Berlin - Worldpress.org
		Photo Opportunity: Berlin mayor Klaus Wowereit (R) of the Social Democrats shakes hands with Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS) politician Gregor Gysi in Berlin, Dec. 20, 2001 (Photo: AFP).
		Within a matter of days, Mayor Wowereit and PDS leader Gregor Gysi, who will become deputy mayor and will be in charge of the city's finances, were photographed arm in arm under a Christmas tree at City Hall.
		Hamburg's liberal weekly Der Spiegel, in a Dec. 6 article headlined "Santa Klaus Wowereit And His Elf Gysi," predicted that the coalition could resemble a two-man show, since both Wowereit and Gysi are known to be fond of the media, outspoken, and charismatic.
	www.worldpress.org /print_article.cfm?article_id=514&dont=yes (954 words)

	RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY
		President Vaclav Klaus said on Czech Radio on 15 June that he was not surprised by the outcome of the 13-14 June referendum on EU accession, CTK reported (see "RFE/RL Newsline," 16 June 2003).
		Klaus said the only question ahead of the plebiscite was that of turnout, which totaled 55 percent, higher than expected by most observers.
		Some of the most strident criticism of Klaus in the wake of the referendum has been for his public silence, which persisted for nearly a full day after polls were closed.
	www.rferl.org /newsline/2003/06/3-CEE/cee-170603.asp (2426 words)

	Berlin at the Crossroads - by Dirk Cohausz - June 14, 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		SPD top-seeded candidate Klaus Wowereit will be proposed as Diepgen's successor.
		Because the Berlin SPD formally announced the dissolution of the Great Coalition of SPD and CDU, which had constituted the government of the city-state, a special party meeting unanimously nominated SPD state caucus leader Wowereit as its new candidate for the office of mayor.
		Wowereit is expected to lead a provisional SPD-Green government that would be acceptable to the PDS, in the period between a non-confidence vote against current mayor Eberhard Diepgen (CDU) and a speedy new Senate (state parliament in Berlin) election.
	www.aicgs.org /at-issue/ai-berlin.shtml (400 words)

	The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine): Klaus Wowereit.(gay mayor of Berlin, Germany)(B... @ HighBeam ...
		In the city once divided by concrete and barbed wire in a notion in which gay people were persecuted during World War II, the new, gay interim mayor of Berlin is a political pioneer.
		Klaus Wowereit, 47, was a little-known Social Democrat before grabbing nationwide attention in June when he came out at a party convention.
		When city lawmakers appointed him June 23, they cemented the shift that removed the conservative Christian Democrats, led by outgoing mayor Eberhard Diepgen Since then, Wowereit has emphasized in interviews that he is a "politician who's gay but not o gay politician" and that he hasn't focused on gay issues.
	highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?docid=1G1:76896430&refid=ink_tptd_mag (259 words)

	Gay News From 365Gay.com
		Posted: August 30, 2005 5:00 pm ET (Berlin) German conservatives are blasting Berlin mayor Klaus Wowereit for supporting the city's annual SandM fetish fair.
		Wowereit wrote an official greeting in its official program.
		Wowereit was the first elected gay mayor of a major city in the world.
	www.365gay.com /newscon05/08/083005berlin.htm (241 words)

	BBC News \| EUROPE \| Profile: Berlin's cult-status mayor
		Whatever Klaus Wowereit does or does not achieve as Mayor of Berlin, he has already guaranteed his place in history.
		Mr Wowereit (pronounced vovv-er-ite) in Berlin and Mayor Delanoe (de-la-no-way) now share a similar quest: to be remembered not for their sexuality but for their politics.
		Mr Wowereit has repeatedly attempted to distance the party from the discredited coalition with the CDU.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/world/europe/newsid_1613000/1613270.stm (742 words)

	World Press Review - Berlin Elections
		In its municipal elections on Oct. 21, the Social Democratic Party (SPD) under Mayor Klaus Wowereit won a landslide victory with 29.7 percent of the vote.
		The Christian Democrats, who were was ousted in June 2001 amid a banking scandal and their mayor replaced by Wowereit, suffered their worst defeat in postwar history.
		After direct intervention of Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, Wowereit passed over the option of a stable coalition with the former communists—which would have bridged the division between East and West—and chose the ample coalition instead.
	www.worldpress.org /europe/0102germany.htm (408 words)

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