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• BRAZILIAN PRINTIAL HOPEFUL EDUARDO LEE OUT AS GAY
• BRAZIL’S FIRST OPENLY GAY PRINTIAL CANDIDATE MAK HISTORY — AND SPARKS CRICISM
• BRAZILIAN POTENTIAL PRINTIAL NDIDATE ANNOUNC HE IS GAY
• BRAZILIAN POLICIAN DAVID MIRANDA, THE FIRST OPENLY GAY CY COUNCILOR IN R JANEIRO, DI AT 37
• GAY BRAZILIANS SH TO WED BEFORE 'HOMOPHOBIC' PRINT-ELECT TAK OFFICE
• MEET DAVID MIRANDA, THE GAY POLICIAN FENDG LGBTQ RIGHTS BRAZIL
• BRAZILIAN POLICIAN DAVID MIRANDA, THE FIRST OPENLY GAY CY COUNCILOR IN R JANEIRO, DI AT 37
• EYEG PRINCY, GAY BRAZILIAN ERNOR BRAC FOR ANTI-LGBT+ JIB
• BRAZILIAN GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST DAVID MIRANDA DI AT 37 | CSE OF ATH
• DAVID MIRANDA, GAY POLICIAN AND HBAND OF JOURNALIST GLENN GREENWALD, DI AT 37
• THE MOST FAMO GAY POLICIANS
• DAVID MIRANDA, GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST AND SNOWN ALLY BRAZIL, DI AT 37

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.

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

As a gay man, I know what was like for me … so ’s important to appld this.

BRAZILIAN POTENTIAL PRINTIAL NDIDATE ANNOUNC HE IS GAY

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 POLICIAN DAVID MIRANDA, THE FIRST OPENLY GAY CY COUNCILOR IN R JANEIRO, DI AT 37

“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.

GAY BRAZILIANS SH TO WED BEFORE 'HOMOPHOBIC' PRINT-ELECT TAK OFFICE

Brazilian ernor Eduardo Lee was met wh a mixed receptn after g out as gay amid his 2022 printial n.

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. 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.

MEET DAVID MIRANDA, THE GAY POLICIAN FENDG LGBTQ RIGHTS BRAZIL

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

Governor Eduardo Lee of R Gran do Sul uld challenge Jair Bolsonaro, who has poed anti-gay rhetoric.

BRAZILIAN POLICIAN DAVID MIRANDA, THE FIRST OPENLY GAY CY COUNCILOR IN R JANEIRO, DI AT 37

Brazilian ernor and potential major party printial ndidate Eduardo Lee, a proment cric of Print Jair Bolsonaro, me out as gay a TV terview.

Lee, 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.

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

I am a ernor who is gay, not a gay ernor, as former Print Obama the US was a print who was Black, not a Black print.

BRAZILIAN GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST DAVID MIRANDA DI AT 37 | CSE OF ATH

Bolsonaro has lled himself a “proud homophobe” and throughout his three s Brazilian polics he has bashed the LGBTQ muny, nyg acunts of creased vlence llg them “sob stori”. In a 2013 terview, he said homosexuals rec heterosexual children to fulfil their sexual sir and “no father would ever take pri havg a gay son”.

DAVID MIRANDA, GAY POLICIAN AND HBAND OF JOURNALIST GLENN GREENWALD, DI AT 37

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) May 9, 2023Miranda was a tour force the Brazilian ernment, beg the first openly gay cy uncilor R Janeiro 2016 and servg Brazil’s Congrs startg 2019, CNN reported.

THE MOST FAMO GAY POLICIANS

1, has been unequivol when to his views on homosexualy. He has attributed homosexualy to dg e, pared same-sex marriage to pedophilia, advoted that parents beat beg gay out of their children and once said he’d rather his son die an accint than be gay.

DAVID MIRANDA, GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST AND SNOWN ALLY BRAZIL, DI AT 37

In 2013, he even admted, “Y, I am homophobic — and very proud of .