Bogota mayor invites citizens to ‘come out of the closet’

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The mayor of Colombia’s capital Bogota, Gustavo Petro, is promoting gender tolerance through this week’s celebration of “Sexual Diversity and Gender Identity.”

Starting Thursday Bogota’s

According to news site Terra, “For a Bogota without Closets” released a statement saying that, “t

Bogota is a city in which allegedly 20% of the community believes that LGBT are “a risk to the community,” according to El Espectador. Homosexuality was even a crime in Colombia, punishable by imprisonment, until 1980.

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