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Sunday, March 9, 2014

Anti-Gay Former Puerto Rican Senator Comes Out As Gay

Anti-Gay Former Puerto Rican Senator Comes Out As Gay

Nigel Campbell | March 7, 2014
​In 2011, conservative Roberto Arango resigned from the Puerto Rican Senate after his nude pics from Grindr were released to the press.

Don't shed too many tears though. Arango's political career was filled with anti-gay votes and outright mocking of the gay community.
Blabbeando writes:
In 2004 he mocked a San Juan mayoral candidate during a political rally by implying he was gay and holding a plastic duck and making quacking noises when speaking against him ("pato" or duck in Spanish is a word often used as a slur against gays in Puerto Rico).
In 2007 he embraced a conservative religious coalition and personally received thousands of signatures they had collected against same-sex civil unions as he vowed to defend so-called Christian values in the Puerto Rican senate and prevent changes to the civil code.  That year he also led efforts to amend the Puerto Rican constitution to ban recognition of any unions that were not those between a man and a woman (the effort ultimately failed).
And in 2009 he defended secret efforts by conservative colleagues in the Senate to pass a bill banning adoption rights
Well, nearly three years later, Arango has come out as gay in a radio interview with Noti UNO:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=SGrlr4iQbiI

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