SEXUAL ORIENTATION OF A LEADER

SEXUAL ORIENTATION OF A LEADER

Claudia López, mayor of Bogotá, makes many of the city's inhabitants proud, is synonymous with a correct and fighting woman. Currently, some enemies are asking a lot of questions. Those questions are relatively unimportant, but they are taken as a bad thing, however, Claudia says that being a lesbian is not only having a relationship with women, but it is also a social position that she, with all responsibility, assumes, right to be happy no matter who we love’, in which his proposals for the LGBT population are mentioned. Its strategy, as the document indicates, will be to work in an articulated way to identify, prevent and eradicate all forms of discrimination and violence that LGBT people face in Bogotá. "We will promote respect for difference and end social and institutional abuse," he says

Claudia López won after overcoming a difficult campaign. More than one person expressed that he would not vote for her because he seemed "loud", as a euphemism to reject that López leaves the delicacy and softness socially expected from women. In fact, being "loud-mouthed" has never been an argument for not voting for Álvaro Uribe and you have to see him in Congress, because López speaks with a tone that is not socially expected for women, became for many a reason to discard it. Deep down, the discomfort was that Claudia López moved away from the traditional parameter of femininity. Likewise, at least two of López's competitors made special emphasis in their campaigns in an aspect that in a society like Colombia is almost a value. added: having a partner (under marriage) of the opposite sex and children to show. Claudia, for her part, highlighted her family (brothers and nephews) and the mother figure, also very relevant in the Colombian context.

After a long campaign, Claudia López won and that is supposed to be the only thing that should matter now. But once the news was confirmed, she hugged and kissed her partner, Senator Angélica Lozano, just as many couples do in a moment of celebration. Since then, there has been no lack of criticism from some conservative sectors that pointed to this gesture as "a challenging act" with people who oppose same-sex couples. There were also those who said that these displays of affection should be private and not public.