“I am going to be mayor of a township where there are 258 villages full of tough country people, who don’t necessarily have much information on what’s happening elsewhere, and have even less of an automatic sympathy with their gay mayor.”
The Zacatecas region in Northern Mexico, with a reputation for drug violence and ten-gallon hats, has elected the first openly gay mayor in Mexico.
Via: Courtesy of Benjamin Medrano / AP
Benjamin Medrano, 47-years-old, won Fresnillo's July 7th election and will take office this September.
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Medrano has also been the owner of a local gay bar for nearly 18 years.
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The newly-elected mayor is also a talented singer, something that he claims made his sexuality easier for people to accept.
"Given that I'm a singer, people know that aspect of me," Medrano told the AP.
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