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ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
Today, Miranda is the first openly gay print of the Hispanic Feratn — one of the natn's largt Lato advocy anizatns — and is drawg upon his experienc to help ph back agast recent laws and polici that target LGBTQ people.
Miranda, 51, believ that measur like Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” law and the state’s rtrictn on genr-affirmg re for mors will actually hurt children. “LULAC has always had openly gay members, and they were loved and beloved.
In 1961, Jose Sarria beme the first openly gay ndidate to n for public office, when he ran for the San Francis Board of Supervisors. In 1987, Car Chavez — one of the first natnal civil rights lears to support gay rights — served as a grand marshal of the Send Natnal March on Washgton for Lbian and Gay Rights. Y., the first openly gay Ao Lato to be elected to Congrs 2020, drew on his firsthand experienc to put LGBTQ issu the legislative foreont.