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.
Contents:
- BRAZILIAN PRINTIAL HOPEFUL EDUARDO LEE OUT AS GAY
- BRAZILIAN NDIDATE OUT AS GAY RACE AGAST ‘PROUD’ HOMOPHOBE BOLSONARO
BRAZILIAN PRINTIAL HOPEFUL EDUARDO LEE OUT AS GAY
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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.
BRAZILIAN NDIDATE OUT AS GAY RACE AGAST ‘PROUD’ HOMOPHOBE BOLSONARO
"While his g out was weled by many, others noted Lee's past support of the homophobic Bolsonaro durg the 2018 electn. "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.