Four out LGBTQ candidates win elections in Puerto Rico
Four LGBTQ candidates in Puerto Rico were elected to public office last Tuesday.Ana Irma Rivera Lassén, a longtime lawyer and activist on the island, became the first Black, openly lesbian Puerto Rican elected to the Puerto Rico Senate. In the 1980s, Rivera, an anti-discrimination advocate, famously sued a judge and won after being refused entry into court because she was wearing pants, reports TIME.Now the spokesperson for the Citizens’ Victory Movement, Rivera was attacked by Antulio “Kobbo” Santarrosa, the host of La Comay, a Puerto Rican gossip show hosted by a life-sized puppet of the same name, five months ago.