1005 Rio Grande do Sul state governor and potential presidential candidate Eduardo Leite walks in Brasilia, Brazil, on October 23, 2019. Reuters/File
Sao Paulo/Brasilia, July 3
Brazilian governor and potential major party presidential candidate Eduardo Leite, a prominent critic of President Jair Bolsonaro, came out as gay in a TV interview.
Leite, governor of the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul, would be the first openly gay presidential candidate in Brazil.
Anti-gay rhetoric has been a staple of speeches by Bolsonaro, who once declared that if he had a gay son, he would rather the child died in an accident. I have never spoken about a subject related to my private life , Leite told Brazilian journalist Pedro Bial in a TV interview on Thursday evening.
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