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• BRAZILIAN PRINTIAL HOPEFUL EDUARDO LEE OUT AS GAY
• BRAZILIAN NDIDATE OUT AS GAY RACE AGAST ‘PROUD’ HOMOPHOBE BOLSONARO
• BRAZIL’S FIRST OPENLY GAY PRINTIAL CANDIDATE MAK HISTORY — AND SPARKS CRICISM
• JEAN WYLLYS LLS EDUARDO LEE ‘GAY WH HOMOPHOBIA’ AND ERNOR UNTERS: ‘DEPRSG’
• BRAZIL’S FIRST GAY PRINTIAL HOPEFUL EDUARDO LEE ‘WON’T LAY DOWN’ FOR LGBT+ RIGHTS
• EDUARDO LEE SE ASSUME GAY: NHEçA OUTROS POLíTIS ABERTAMENTE HOMOSSEXUAIS EM ALTOS RGOS NO MUNDO
• BRAZILIAN PRINTIAL HOPEFUL OUT AS GAY AHEAD OF JAIR BOLSONARO CHALLENGE
• AN AMB ERNOR OUT AS GAY
• BRAZILIAN POTENTIAL PRINTIAL NDIDATE ANNOUNC HE IS GAY
• BRAZILIAN ERNOR AND POTENTIAL PRINTIAL CHALLENGER EDUARDO LEE OUT AS GAY

BRAZILIAN PRINTIAL HOPEFUL EDUARDO LEE OUT AS GAY

One of Brazil’s leadg policians, the printial hopeful Eduardo Lee, has announced he is gay – a rare move celebrated by many as a triumph over prejudice a untry whose print has clared himself a proud, the 36-year-old ernor of the southern state of R Gran do Sul, ma the announcement on Thursday night durg an terview wh the untry’s top broadster, TV Globo. “I know the pa the prison of the closet reprents, particularly a nservative environment like polics, ” tweeted Fabiano Contarato, who beme Brazil’s first openly gay senator 2018. ”Not everyone celebrated Lee’s revelatn, wh many activists rememberg how Lee had supported Bolsonaro the 2018 electn spe the populist’s notor history of a 2013 terview wh Stephen Fry – which the Brish actor later lled “one of the most chillg nontatns I’ve ever had wh a human beg” – Bolsonaro proclaimed: “Brazilian society don’t like homosexuals.

”Jean Wyllys, who was the first openly gay member of Brazil’s ngrs to fight for LGBT rights, said Lee had never repented for backg Bolsonaro, who had spent s “perpetratg the most vile and sordid kd of homophobia” said: “This chap had many opportuni to fend the LGBT muny and he didn’t. “It’s not jt a play on words … he’s clearly sketchg a dividg le between certa gay existenc that are legimate, and others that are not, ” Qualha said, qutng why Lee had not simply said: “I’m gay. He lled the cisn “a mocratic gture”, but sisted he reprented “the polics of love, not hate” month, Lee found himself on the receivg end of Bolsonaro’s homophobia – which activists blame for a rise anti-LGBT vlence – when Brazil’s print suggted to supporters the ernor might have ncealed feral rourc his an.

BRAZILIAN NDIDATE OUT AS GAY RACE AGAST ‘PROUD’ HOMOPHOBE BOLSONARO

Lee plans to challenge Brazil’s right-wg lear Jair Bolsonaro, who once told an terviewer 2013 that “Brazilian society don’t like homosexuals. While the admissn mak him the untry’s first-ever openly gay printial ndidate, crics blasted Lee’s prev support of Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s homophobic, far-right, a ndidate reprentg the centrist Brazilian Social Democratic party (PSDB) next year’s electns, opened up about his sexual orientatn for the first time a Thursday terview wh TV Globo, the untry’s largt televisn work.

At 36, he is the natn’s youngt ernor to be currently servg office, and his g out mak him the first openly gay man to be ernor of a Brazilian his terview, Lee clarified that se himself as “a ernor who is gay, not a gay ernor.

Fabiano Contarato, who beme the first openly gay reprentative the Brazilian Senate 2018, thanked the ernor for his “bravery” a Thursday tweet.

BRAZIL’S FIRST OPENLY GAY PRINTIAL CANDIDATE MAK HISTORY — AND SPARKS CRICISM

However, some were quick to remd Lee that he had publicly supported Bolsonaro’s Printial bid 2018, even though Bolsonaro has a history as a homophobe.

JEAN WYLLYS LLS EDUARDO LEE ‘GAY WH HOMOPHOBIA’ AND ERNOR UNTERS: ‘DEPRSG’

Back 2011, Bolsonaro said an terview wh Playboy, “I would be pable of lovg a gay son”, suggtg would be better for such a son to die a r accint. Jean Wyllys, the first openly gay member of Congrs Brazil, rpond to Lee’s g out by sayg Lee had never retracted his support for Bolsonaro. While gay men wh ternalized homophobia often velop libido and fetish towards thorarianism and uniforms; if he’s whe and rich then… It’s ugly, ‘bee’ (slang for a homosexual man)”, wrote the former puty.

The 36-year-old nservative polician, who is the favoured printial ndidate of fanciers and vtors, told the Buenos Air Tim that he don’t believe beg gay mak a person tomatilly cled to mpaign for LGBT+ equaly. “Not every woman is a femist activist, not every Black person is a racial activist, and not every gay person needs to be an activist.

Dpe his lackltre mment to his LGBT+ siblgs, natnal equaly groups Brazil have said that Lee has their backg the wake of his g out as gay.

BRAZIL’S FIRST GAY PRINTIAL HOPEFUL EDUARDO LEE ‘WON’T LAY DOWN’ FOR LGBT+ RIGHTS

The homophobic rhetoric cultivated by Jair Bolsonaro, who once said he’d rather have a ad son than a gay son, has seen a adly rise anti-LGBT+ rhetoric  Brazil, g one trans polician to flee the untry after beg targeted wh relentls ath threats. “In Brazil nowadays, unfortunately, this [homosexualy] is one theme to discred people, pecially bee of the way that Bolsonaro talks about , ” Lee said prevly. 2 julho 2021Crédo, Getty ImagLegenda da foto, O premiê Luxemburgo, Xavier Bettel (direa), sou-se o arqueto belga Gthier Dtenay em 2015A cisão do ernador do R Gran do Sul, Eduardo Lee (PSDB), assumir ser homossexual ada é um fato pou um na políti brasileira — em pecial em se tratando um políti que é apontado o pré-ndidato à Pridência da Repúbli nas eleiçõ 2022.

Ele se tornou o primeiro ernador na história do Brasil a assumir ser disse, em entrevista ao programa Conversa Bial, da TV Globo, na quta-feira (1/7): "Eu sou gay, sou gay e sou um ernador gay. Nun criei um personagem" um universo zenas har polítis eleos em diversas feras, os sos polítis assumidamente homossexuais são raros no Brasil — o os ex-putados Jean Wyllis (PSOL-RJ) e Clodovil Hernans (PTC-SP e PR-SP, falecido em 2009), o senador Fabiano Contarato (Re-ES), o putado feral David Miranda (PSOL-RJ, que substuiu Wyllis quando te renuncu, em 2019) e o ex-prefeo Ls (SP), Edgar Souza (PSDB) país on é ilegal ser homossexualAssexualida: o orientação sexual 'visível' saiu do armárCrédo, GUSTAVO MANSUR / PALÁCIO PIRATINILegenda da foto, Eduardo Lee se tornou o primeiro ernador brasileiro a assumir sua homossexualidaNa Assembleia Legislativa São Plo, o putado tadual Douglas Garcia (PSL-SP), que tegra um movimento nservador, anuncu ser gay em 2019, pois dizer que tiraria a tapas uma transexual que asse o banheiro femo — após um discurso feo por Erika Malunguho (PSOL-SP), a primeira putada transexual elea no parlamento tadual São chef erno gaysNo rtante do mundo, alguns polítis gays alnçaram altos rgos.

EDUARDO LEE SE ASSUME GAY: NHEçA OUTROS POLíTIS ABERTAMENTE HOMOSSEXUAIS EM ALTOS RGOS NO MUNDO

Todos são Matérias reendadas e ntue lendoMatérias reendadasFim do Matérias reendadasEm 2009, a Islândia eleg a ex-aeromoça e lír sdil Johanna Sigurdardottir o primeira-mistra — ela foi a primeira chefe Estado do mundo abertamente homossexual no mundo.

EpisódsFim do PodstO segundo políti assumidamente gay a virar chefe Estado no mundo foi o ex-premiê da Bélgi, El Di Rupo, que ernou o país entre 2011 e 2014. Di Rupo foi ocentado e as acaçõ foram nsiradas falsas pela Jtiç s livro memórias, o ex-premiê belga lembra que, durante o cândalo, foi perseguido por jornalistas na a e um l perguntou se ele era homossexual. Crédo, Getty ImagLegenda da foto, Premiê da Sérvia, Ana Brnabic, é crida por ativistas LGBT por não fazer o suficiente para fenr os direos dos homossexuais no país.

A Sérvia, um país on a onda nservadora é forte, eleg Ana Brnabic em 2017 — a primeira mulher e primeira homossexual a ocupar o rgo. No ano segute, ativistas da unida LGBT criram Brnabic por não atuar em favor das ptas direos sociais e chegaram a fazer uma mpanha para que a premiê não participasse uma das paradas do Orgulho Gay do país. Uma pquisa sugere que 20% dos sais gays não nseguem alugar uma sa, vido à discrimaçã 2019, a parceira Ana Brnabic u à luz ao filho do sal — a primeira vez no mundo em que um chefe Estado gay tem um filho no rgo.

BRAZILIAN PRINTIAL HOPEFUL OUT AS GAY AHEAD OF JAIR BOLSONARO CHALLENGE

Estados UnidosNos EUA, o primeiro políti abertamente gay a ter proemência foi Harvey Milk, do partido Democrata, que se eleg vereador San Francis nos anos e batente na Guerra da Coreia, Milk tornou-se um íne entre ativistas por fenr direos psoas homossexuais. Ele foi assassado em 1978 ntro da prefeura San Francis por um adversár políti, que também matou o prefeo da cida no mmo dos polítis mais famosos a assumir sua homossexualida foi o mocrata Barney Frank, que atuou o putado entre 1981 e 2013.

Por dédas, foi ativista direos homossexuais — o o fim da proibição gays nas Forças Armadas e a legalização do samento entre psoas do mmo sexo. Fiu famoso por dizer ser uma psoa "astumada moria": "Sou o úni parlamentar nhoto, gay e juu que existe" uma das polítis gays mais famosas do Congrso amerino é a mocrata Tammy Baldw, elea pelo Estado Wisns, que se tornou a primeira putada abertamente gay em 1999 e a primeira senadora em 2013.

Crédo, Getty ImagLegenda da foto, Buttigieg (direa) aparec s marido em diversos momentos da mpanha para Pridência; hoje ele é mistro Joe BinNa eleição passada, em 2020, um ex-prefeo do terr Indiana disputou a dição do Partido Democrata para ser ndidato à Pridência dos vencse, Pete Buttigieg seria o primeiro ndidato abertamente gay entre os grans partidos amerinos. "Atualmente Buttigieg é mistro dos Transport do erno do printe Joe Estados amerinos são ernados por polítis gays: o Oregon (por Kate Brown, que é bissexual) e Colorado (por Jared Polis) — ambos mocratas.

AN AMB ERNOR OUT AS GAY

Brown foi elea em 2015, a primeira vez em que um políti abertamente homossexual ganhou uma eleição tadual nos outros país, alguns polítis gays ocuparam postos gran por. Eduardo Lee hop to challenge the far-right print Bolsonaro next year’s electn, a man who once said he would rather his son die than be gay. The homophobic rhetoric Bolsonaro has cultivated has seen a adly rise anti-LGBT+ rhetoric Brazil, g one trans polician to flee the untry after beg targeted wh relentls ath threats.

“I never created a character, I never said I wasn’t, I never tried to make people believe I wasn’t gay, ” he add an terview wh Rád Gaúcha on Friday morng.

BRAZILIAN POTENTIAL PRINTIAL NDIDATE ANNOUNC HE IS GAY

“I know the pa the prison of the closet reprents, particularly a nservative environment like polics, ” tweeted Fabiano Contarato, who beme Brazil’s first openly gay senator  2018.

Jean Wyllys, the first openly gay member of Brazil’s ngrs to fight for LGBT+ rights, poted out that Lee had never repented for his years backg Bolsonaro, who he supported as recently as 2018.

BRAZILIAN ERNOR AND POTENTIAL PRINTIAL CHALLENGER EDUARDO LEE OUT AS GAY

Not a gay man who is ernor, ” he said, parg himself to Barack Obama, who broke racial barriers to bee the first black print of the U.

Lee’s urage to e out, a untry which almost 250 LGBTI+ people were killed last year and where discrimatn agast gays remas still we explaed our Brazil Daily newsletter on Friday, Mr. Lee’s g out — jt as he is tryg to enter natnal polics — uld be important for LGBT+ reprentatn, pecially a untry that elected a self-proclaimed “proud homophobe” Jair are few openly LGBT+ elected officials Brazil — only three Congrspeople are...