Brazil’s First Openly Gay Printial Candidate Mak History — And Sparks Cricism | Them

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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.

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

”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.

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.

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

”But Qualha was troubled by Lee’s cisn to scribe himself as “a ernor who is gay” and not a “gay ernor”.

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

“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 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.

MEET DAVID MIRANDA, THE GAY POLICIAN FENDG LGBTQ RIGHTS BRAZIL

“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. 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.

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”. — 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. 1, has been unequivol when to his views on homosexualy.

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

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. In 2013, he even admted, “Y, I am homophobic — and very proud of . ”This alert began after Maria Berenice Dias, a Brazilian judge and the print of the Brazilian Bar Associatn’s Commissn on Sexual Diversy, advised gay upl to get married bee there was a risk that their rights uld be taken Moreira, director of Gpo Ar-Iris, one of the olst LGBTQ anizatns Brazil, acknowledged that gay upl shg to get married before the end of the year have a “valid ncern.

5, but many other gay upl have already gotten married, fearful of what may e once Bolsonaro officially tak office.

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

”While fear of losg recently gaed gay rights looms ahead of Bolsonaro’s guratn and vlence agast LGBTQ people has been on the rise, a silver lg has been the untry-wi mpaign to help same-sex upl tie the knot before the New Year.

The seasoned event planner shared a post on his Facebook page volunteerg to help gay upl Brazil fd weddg lotns, terers and other vendors for their ceremoni. His post quickly went viral, and he received msag om service provirs all over Brazil offerg to addn to nnectg vendors wh gay upl shg to get married, Paz planned a group weddg for four same-sex upl at a weddg venue São Plo on Dec.

Wh vlence agast LGBTQ people on the rise Brazil, Miranda’s prence the Brazilian Congrs as an out-gay, black man already rri heavy risk. His precsor and iend Jean Wyllys, who also happens to be a black gay man, had to flee the untry after numero ath threats earlier this year.

THE MOST FAMO GAY POLICIANS

His iend Marielle Fran, another black gay polician, was murred last March. Miranda was a tour force Brazilian ernment, beg the first openly gay cy uncilor R Janeiro 2016 and servg Congrs …Blavy - Kui Mwai • 81dRead more on. 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.

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

“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. 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.