Salt Lake City elects first openly gay mayor

Lawmaker Jackie Biskupski made history this week by becoming Salt Lake City’s first openly gay mayor. Election results showed that Biskupski won 52 percent of the votes to defeat two-term mayor Ralph Becker. 

“Today is not just about making history,” Biskupski said. “It is about people. It is about affecting change,” Biskupski said. Voters also elected Derek Kitchen  on Tuesday,who became the second gay member of the Salt Lake City Council. Biskupski was first elected as a lawmaker in Salt Lake back in 1998. When asked about how Salt Lake has changed she said, “It’s 2015, and we’ve come a long way from, gosh, when I first got elected.”