I don't remember how the issue came up (maybe Westerwelle went to Saudi Arabia), but the status quo was maintained: Westerwelle's partner doesn't travel to countries where it would be obviously problematic; Westerwelle says that by being an openly gay foreign minister, he's accomplishing something, regardless of where his partner is. (Never mind that his partner and everyone else's presumably have lives and things to do.) I don't think the question of unfair scrutiny ever got resolved, as these things never do.

There was a business component to this as well (well, I think there were two travel to-dos--I think I got them a bit confused and the scrutiny question was the business travel row): http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/0,1518,684722,00.html As ever, it's only possible to find things on the Spiegel website in the language you're not looking for--hopefully Google Translate won't make a hash of that.