Brazilian printial hopeful Eduardo Lee out as gay

Contents:

• BRAZILIAN PRINTIAL HOPEFUL EDUARDO LEE OUT AS GAY
• EYEG PRINCY, GAY BRAZILIAN ERNOR BRAC FOR ANTI-LGBT+ JIB
• BRAZILIAN NDIDATE OUT AS GAY RACE AGAST ‘PROUD’ HOMOPHOBE BOLSONARO
• BRAZIL’S FIRST OPENLY GAY PRINTIAL CANDIDATE MAK HISTORY — AND SPARKS CRICISM
• AN AMB ERNOR OUT AS GAY
• EDUARDO LEE, BRAZIL’S FIRST OUT GAY GOVERNOR, WS RE-ELECTN
• BRAZILIAN PRINTIAL HOPEFUL COM OUT AS GAY
• PRINTIAL PRE-CANDIDATE IN BRAZIL CAME OUT AS GAY AT A KEY MOMENT
• GOVERNOR OF BRAZILIAN R GRAN DO SUL STATE OUT: “I AM A ERNOR WHO IS GAY.”
• BRAZILIAN ERNOR AND PRINTIAL HOPEFUL EDUARDO LEE OUT AS GAY
• BRAZILIAN POTENTIAL PRINTIAL NDIDATE ANNOUNC HE IS GAY
• RACE TO REPLACE BRAZIL PRINT PUTS FOC ON ‘PROUD’ FORMER BOLSONARO SUPPORTER; EDUARDO LEE COM OUT AS ‘GOVERNOR WHO IS GAY;’ ‘I HAVE NOTHG TO HI’

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’m gay – and I’m a ernor who is gay rather than a gay ernor.

“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.

EYEG PRINCY, GAY BRAZILIAN ERNOR BRAC FOR ANTI-LGBT+ JIB

As a gay man, I know what was like for me … so ’s important to appld this. I also thk is objectively really posive that Brazil’s new generatns see a ernor … g out as gay. ”But Qualha was troubled by Lee’s cisn to scribe himself as “a ernor who is gay” and not a “gay ernor”.

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

“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. 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.

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

"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.

AN AMB ERNOR OUT AS GAY

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. SAO PAULO/BRASILIA, July 2 (Rters) - Brazilian ernor and potential major party printial ndidate Eduardo Lee, a proment cric of Print Jair Bolsonaro, me out as gay a TV, ernor of the southern state of R Gran do Sul, would be the first openly gay printial ndidate Brazil.

Anti-gay rhetoric has been a staple of speech by Bolsonaro, who once clared that if he had a gay son, he would rather the child died an accint.

EDUARDO LEE, BRAZIL’S FIRST OUT GAY GOVERNOR, WS RE-ELECTN

"But durg this moment of low tegry Brazil, I have nothg to hi, I am gay. I am a ernor who is gay, not a gay ernor, as former print Obama the U. SAO PAULO (Thomson Rters Foundatn) - Gay Brazilian ernor and printial hopeful Eduardo Lee said he expects to enunter anti-LGBT+ rhetoric as he bids to unseat Print Jair Bolsonaro, a far-right firebrand who once scribed himself as a “proud homophobe”, 36, who is ernor of the southern state of R Gran do Sul, me out on televisn last week, leadg rivals to acce him of tryg to explo his sexualy for polil ga ahead of next year’s printial electn.

BRAZILIAN PRINTIAL HOPEFUL COM OUT AS GAY

“I’ve got nothg agast his private life, but he nnot impose his liftyle on others, ” said Bolsonaro, who once clared that if he had a gay son, he would rather the child died an Lee, who would bee Brazil’s first openly gay printial ndidate if he ws a party primary later this year, nied his cisn to e out to the natn was polilly motivated.

PRINTIAL PRE-CANDIDATE IN BRAZIL CAME OUT AS GAY AT A KEY MOMENT

I never created a character or lied about my sexualy, I simply didn’t talk about , ” he told the Thomson Rters Foundatn a telephone, a member of the social mocratic party PSDB, supported Bolsonaro the send round of Brazil’s 2018 electn, but beme a cric of the print’s management of the COVID-19 ernor is nng the PSDB primari schled for November to choose the party’s ndidate for the 2022 electn, and he said he feared the mpaign perd uld be marred by dirty tactics cludg homophobic is currently nsultg lawyers over ments ma by Bolsonaro earlier this year about whether the ernor “may have stuck somewhere else” – nomally reference to money om the state health budget, but wily seen as a homophobic remark. “I have already sought formal urt proceedgs so that the print explas himself, and my lawyers and I are nsirg a lawsu agast him on the grounds of the crime of homophobia, ” Lee a wrten rponse addrsed to the Feral Supreme Court, Bolsonaro said “at no pot did I suggt that the qutner had mted any crimal offense, nor did I tend to offend his honor” is one of the world’s most liberal untri terms of LGBT+ legal rights, havg crimalized gay sex 1830.

GOVERNOR OF BRAZILIAN R GRAN DO SUL STATE OUT: “I AM A ERNOR WHO IS GAY.”

Same-sex marriage was legalized spe the untry’s progrsive legislatn, discrimatn and vlence agast members of the LGBT+ muny is year, 224 LGBT+ people were murred cludg 161 trans women, acrdg to the latt report produced by advocy anizatn Bahia Gay Group, which has been documentg vlence agast LGBT+ people sce said the rights of LGBT+ Brazilians would be jt one of the many issu on his agenda. Eduardo Lee, a Brazilian ernor and proment cric of Print Jair Bolsonaro, me out as gay a TV terview Gran do Sul Governor Eduardo Lee talkg at his office of the Pirati Palace Porto Alegre, R Gran do Sul, Brazil, on March 31, Della Valle / Agencia Pirati via AFP - Getty Imag fileJuly 2, 2021, 5:44 PM UTC / Source: RtersSAO PAULO - Brazilian ernor and potential major party printial ndidate Eduardo Lee, a proment cric of Print Jair Bolsonaro, me out as gay a TV, ernor of the southern state of R Gran do Sul, would be the first openly gay printial ndidate Brazil.

Anti-gay rhetoric has been a staple of speech by Bolsonaro, who once clared that if he had a gay son, he would rather he died an accint.

BRAZILIAN ERNOR AND PRINTIAL HOPEFUL EDUARDO LEE OUT AS GAY

I am a ernor who is gay, not a gay ernor, as former Print Obama the U. A Brazilian printial hopeful me out as gay this week a untry led by a self-scribed “proud homophobe.

Lee plans to challenge Brazil’s right-wg lear Jair Bolsonaro, who once told an terviewer 2013 that “Brazilian society don’t like homosexuals. Brazilian ernor Eduardo Lee was met wh a mixed receptn after g out as gay amid his 2022 printial n.

BRAZILIAN POTENTIAL PRINTIAL NDIDATE ANNOUNC HE IS GAY

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. “But durg this moment of low tegry Brazil, I have nothg to hi, I am gay.

RACE TO REPLACE BRAZIL PRINT PUTS FOC ON ‘PROUD’ FORMER BOLSONARO SUPPORTER; EDUARDO LEE COM OUT AS ‘GOVERNOR WHO IS GAY;’ ‘I HAVE NOTHG TO HI’

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. ”Many proment figur Brazil appld Lee for takg a stand agast homophobia and makg history the procs. Fabiano Contarato, who beme the first openly gay reprentative the Brazilian Senate 2018, thanked the ernor for his “bravery” a Thursday tweet.