why is a politician's sexuality STILL relevant?

In picking up the paper today a headline stood out in the international section; - 'Berlin's gay mayor step down after 13 years'.

Prior to this I had never heard of Klaus Wowereit the Mayor in question. Why would I? His influence doesn't really extend to Britain. There then followed a brief piece on his career and hiss being openly gay. But do we need to know this? Sure he is arguably a symbol and has every right to be out and proud.

The bigger question is though 'Who Cares?' and if it isn't it should be. This is the 21st Century for goodness sake - people's sexuality should be an irrelivance.

The only question voters need to know is, is he/was he good at his job? That's how we should judge all our politicians, regardless of proclivity.

When we pick up the paper and it say mayor to step down and there is no mention of sexuality, or affairs, or let's face it any of there personal life & it focuses on their ability & time in office THEN we will be getting somewhere.