Mexico´s First Openly Gay Mayor Doesn’t Back Gay Marriage

By Manuel Rueda, ABC/Univision

Benjamin Medrano is the first openly gay mayor in Mexico. But he opposes gay marriage.

Medrano, 47, recently won the election in Fresnillo, a conservative and largely rural county in Zacatecas state. He thinks it´s too early (and perhaps politically unsavvy) to support this cause.

“I’m not in favor of gay marriage,” Medrano told the AP on Thursdayexplaining that “we are still a very small town … we’re not prepared, in my view.”

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[Photo courtesy Benjamin Medrano]

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