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The Secretary of State for the Presidency of the Council of Ministers of Portugal, André Moz Caldas, made a point of referring in an interview to the University of Lisbon magazine, where he is a guest assistant at the Faculty of Law, his homosexuality and the fact of being married to another man. The information is from the Expresso newspaper.
“I am the first member of the government to be married to a person of the same sex and I do not make public fanfare, but I also do not feel that it is just one aspect of my personal life.”
And it is to help combat a prejudice that still exists – “I don’t know why homophobia exists, it is a yoke from which society will be freed, but there is still some way to get there” – which now shares its sexual orientation.
André Moz Caldas hopes that his example can show other Portuguese young people that “they are not condemned to ostracism”. “If there is a young man who, by my example, can feel more free to live his sexual orientation openly, I would be very happy.”
In the same interview, the Secretary of State admits that he never felt “victimized” by his sexual orientation, but recognizes that the fact of living in a “progressive social and family context” in Lisbon, made him not have had negative experiences by which other homosexuals pass. “Whoever belongs to a minority has to have a great deal of energy to give permanent respect to it”, he says.
André Moz Caldas, master in law and dentistry at the University of Lisbon and former president of the parish council of Alvalade, is the second member of a Portuguese government to reveal his sexual orientation in an interview. Graça Fonseca – now Minister of Culture – also did so, in an interview with Diário de Notícias when she was Secretary of State.
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