In a close run-off race of historic proportions, Houston voters chose City Controller Annise Parker as Houston's next mayor. Parker defeated attorney Gene Locke Saturday with about 53 percent of the vote (with 99.86 percent of the precincts in). When sworn in in early January, she will become the first lesbian to hold the office of mayor of a major American city and only the second woman. Kathy Whitmire held the office from 1982-1991.
Equally impressive it the coterie of B-list celebrities celebrating with her in this photograph. You have Frank Langella and Phylicia Rashad in the background; and Shirley Knight with Penny Johnson Jerald in the foreground.
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