''She is a senior parliamentarian, she is respected and loved by all of Iceland.''

Thorunn Sveinbjarnardottir, a fellow Alliance party member to Johanna Sigurdardottir, 66, a lesbian who was just appointed as Prime Minister of Iceland. She has reportedly been a member of parliament since 1978, currenly lives with her female civil partner, Jonina Leosdottir, but was previously married to a man and has two children. Iceland's government is said to have collapsed under a banking financial crisis, and Sigurdardottir in the interim pick for PM as the North Atlantic island nation reassembles. (Associated Press)