<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><DIV><B>Houston, Texas (CNN)</B> -- Annise Parker made history Saturday as Houston's first openly gay mayor.</DIV>
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