Benjamin Medrano has become the first openly gay mayor in one of the more notorious part of Zacatecas state in Mexico which is know for macho cowboys & drug gang shootouts. Medrano who’s a 47-year-old singer & own a gay bar stated he’s proud to be openly gay & rights groups say his victory in the city of the Fresnillo election marks a significant point in the fight for gay rights. Though some of Mexican legislators & mayors have been rumored to be gay none have ever come out. Medrano who takes office in September has been the target of a malicious phone-calling campaign in which his political rivals "tried to smear me, as if being gay were a crime." Medrano stated, "I am going to be mayor of a township roughly equivalent to a U.S. county where there are 258 villages full of tough country people, who don't necessarily have much information on what's happening elsewhere & have even less of an automatic sympathy with their gay mayor. But it's not like I'm going to paint city hall pink, either." Fresnillo has experienced a drug turf war where bodies have been found tortured & others buried in shallow graves. Medrano campaigned on a strong public-safety platform, advocating cooperation with state & federal police. "I'm not at risk, because I don't have any relationship with any of the groups," Medrano added, referring to the two drug cartels — the Zetas & the Gulf Cartel — that are fighting for control of Fresnillo, a city of 230,000 that unfortunately sits on some of the main trafficking routes in northern Mexico. Congrats Benjamin & Mexico!! Updates to Come…:)
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