Gay ex-communist becomes top rival to Italy's Berlusconi

And he's from the conservative south. I've often asked Spaniards how, in a Catholic country like Spain, gay marriage could become the law of the land. Same question goes for Italy.

A possible gay Italian Prime Minister.

I'd settle for a(n openly) gay American cabinet secretary. Or just any senior policy person at the White House. The world is passing us by. It's sad. And more evidence that we're not as "number one" as we either thought, or perhaps once were.