“I am not a gay governor, I am a governor who is gay. Just like Obama was not a black president, but a president who is black!” Leite said.
In social networks, his opponent within the party’s presidency in 2022, João Doria, expressed “admiration and respect” to his friend.
According to data from the annual Report on Violent Deaths of LGBT in Brazil, done for 41 years by the Gay Group of Bahia, 237 LGBT+ people died violently in 2020, of which 224 were homicides.
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Eduardo Figueiredo Cavalheiro Leite was elected governor in the 2018 state elections with 53.62% of the votes, at the age of 33, making him the youngest governor in Brazil.