Kickass Openly Gay Native American Woman Elected to State
Legislature  Nine Native Americans have served in the Minnesota
state legislature since the state's founding, and all of them
have been men. But on Tuesday, The Land of 10,000 Lakes chose
via special election its first ever Native American woman to
serve on its state legislature, and the first Native American
lesbian to ever serve in any state legislature anywhere.  Susan
Allen (not to be confused with the wife of Republican Virginia
Senator George Allen) is the polar opposite of her fellow
Minnesota countrywoman Michele Bachmann. She's a progressive
rather than a Tea Partier, she lives in a mixed income
Minneapolis neighborhood rather than a McMansion in the exurbs,
and she's a lesbian rather than a lesbian-fixer. Additionally,
Allen has vowed to fight for defeat of Minnesota's
constitutional marriage amendment, which would effectively make
same-sex marriage illegal in the state. Michele Bachmann is one
of the leading architects of a previous failed a