Ernesto Gasco
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San Sebastián, Spain
Ernesto Gasco | |
|---|---|
 Gasco in December 2013 | |
| Member of the Congress of Deputies | |
| In office 2008–2009 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 24 July 1963 San Sebastián, Spain |
| Political party | Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) |
| Alma mater | Autonomous University of Madrid |
Ernesto José Gasco Gonzalo (born 24 July 1963)[1] is a Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) politician.
He was a councillor in San Sebastián from 1995 to 2020, and a member of the Congress of Deputies from 2008 to 2009. He was the first openly gay member of the Congress of Deputies. He and his husband Iñigo Alonso were the first elected politicians in Spain to enter a same-sex civil partnership and later marriage.
Born in San Sebastián in the Basque Country, Gasco graduated in geography from the Autonomous University of Madrid.[2]
In October 2003, Gasco was one of the first two elected Spanish politicians to enter a same-sex civil partnership with another one, alongside Iñigo Alonso, a councillor for the same party in Lasarte-Oria. The ceremony was officiated by Odón Elorza, the mayor of San Sebastián.[3] In September 2005, Gasco and Alonso were the first same-sex couple of office-holders in Spain to be married, again by Elorza.[4]