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• SPOKEN WORD ARTIST JUAN MIGUEL SEVERO ADMS ON TV THAT HE'S GAY
• JUAN GABRIEL WAS MEXI’S GAY IN — BUT HE NEVER SPOKE OF HIS SEXUALY
• JUAN J. GAY LóPEZ
• POPE FRANCIS TELLS GAY MAN: 'GOD MA YOU LIKE THIS'

SPOKEN WORD ARTIST JUAN MIGUEL SEVERO ADMS ON TV THAT HE'S GAY

Severo was asked if he n relate to his character the movie "The Hows of Us" where he plays Mikko, the gay iend of Gee (Kathryn Bernardo). As ty as is, this self-proclaimed gay "mi-bar" featur nightly acts wh drag queens, sgers, strippers, and poets. He never spoke about his sexualy, yet was wily assumed to be ’s no surprise that the sger was an in Mexi’s gay subculture.

But how was that he me to be celebrated by the untry’s Catholic, nservative and often homophobic mastream? He mataed that posture to his later years spe a shift public opn on gay and transgenr never married, nceived four children via artificial sematn wh a female iend and repeatedly refed to answer qutns about his sexualy, even after a male former personal secretary wrote a book allegg they had a romantic 2002, a few years years before Mexi Cy legalized gay marriage, the famoly effemate sger shut down a journalist who asked if he was gay.

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JUAN GABRIEL WAS MEXI’S GAY IN — BUT HE NEVER SPOKE OF HIS SEXUALY

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JUAN J. GAY LóPEZ

”Mexi has changed nsirably om the days Juan Gabriel was begng his 2005, the feral ernment stuted an anti-homophobia mpaign. Gay and lbian characters now appear on Mexin ss and soap operas. And public opn polls show Mexin people are warmg toward gay marriage, which is legal several stat and Mexi Cy.

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In fewer words: ’s bad out there if you want to fd plex pictns of gay Latos. By no means exhstive, nsir the followg a list of 20 Lato and Lat Amerin LGBT characters worth celebratg this year, om groundbreakg work TV gay teens to Mexin bjos on HBO h shows. The first fully-fledged gay Lato teenager on work televisn ntu to be an spiratn for anyone who tch the short-lived Claire Dan-onted seri My So-Called Life.

POPE FRANCIS TELLS GAY MAN: 'GOD MA YOU LIKE THIS'

LGBT Lato characters ntue to be at the g, but every once a while, you get someone like Osr The Office whose very margaly the show’s ensemble allowed his sexualy and ethnicy to suggt a pth that the s uld tap to when need, as they did the hilar g out episo “Gay Wch Hunt.

Pickg up where Rickie Vazquez had left off, Jt—the beloved nephew of Ameri Ferrera’s Betty—was an update to the gay Lato teen. As Ilana’s gay Lato roommate (and playg up his Guatemalan accent), Arturo Castro ma Jamie the ultimate fab character the always hilar Broad Cy. The San Francis-based show gave not one but two different gay Lato characters.