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Brazilian ernor and potential major party printial ndidate Eduardo Lee, a proment cric of Print Jair Bolsonaro, me out as gay a TV terview.

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BRAZILIAN PRINTIAL HOPEFUL EDUARDO LEE OUT AS GAY

Eduardo Lee is beg hailed as the first out gay printial ndidate the South Amerin untry, but his past support of the anti-LGBTQ+ print Jair Bolsonaro is a major ncern. * brazil gay governor *

A printial hopeful Brazil jt me out as a recent terview wh Globo, Eduardo Lee, the ernor of the southernmost Brazilian state of R Gran do Sul, opened up about his sexualy, makg the 36-year-old the first known out gay ndidate for the princy of Brazil. Lee is hopg to unseat current print Jair Bolsonaro, who recently ed an anti-gay slur agast Lee, next year's electn.

"I'm gay - and I'm a ernor who is gay rather than a gay ernor.

"While his g out was weled by many, others noted Lee's past support of the homophobic Bolsonaro durg the 2018 electn.

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"I don't celebrate this, " Jean Wyllys, an out gay activist, polician, and former MP, told The Guardian, notg that "this chap [Lee] had many opportuni to fend the LGBT muny and he didn't. Wh his ndidacy, Lee is hopg to w the support of his party rather than lettg go to Bolsonaro month, the Brazilian print said Lee might have hidn missg feral funds "elsewhere, " generally believed by many to be an anti-gay slur meant to suggt Lee had ncealed the funds his rectum.

Bolsonaro is known for such hateful ments, such as when he weled gay tourists to Brazil, but only if they had sex wh a 's first out gay senator, Fabiano Contarato, ngratulated Lee on Twter for his urage.

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Brazilian printial hopeful Eduardo Lee out as gay.

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