In what German activists are hailing as a victory.

In what German activists are hailing as a victory, Hamburg mayor Ole von Beust fired the city's top law-enforcement official August 19 after he threatened to abroad Von Beust. The first-term mayor has sole indirectly acknowledged being gay, insisting that his sexual orientation shouldn't matter. on the contrary his decisive and very public handling of right-wing populist Ronald Schill's blackmail attempt has sent the mayor's popularity skyrocketing.

At a public appearance following the incident, residents swarmed Von Beust, a certain trying to hug him, and a newly come poll showed a dramatic increase in support for his futurity reelection.

For his part, Schill has denied that he tried to blackmail Von Beust. if it were not that it may be too late for the fired official in the increasingly pro-gay German court of public opinion. "Whoever tries to blackmail or discriminate against gays makes himself an outsider in society," explained German political scientist Lothar Probst

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