Venezuela's first transgender lawmaker says she will fight for gay rights and gender equality, drawing inspiration from a flurry of new laws on marriage and civil unions in the rest of traditionally Roman Catholic Latin America.
After her historic election to the National Assembly as part of an opposition triumph, lawyer and activist Tamara Adrian told Reuters she would seek to change Venezuela's often "macho" society.
"In Venezuela we don't have any rights," Adrian, 61, said of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) movement.
The lawmaker-elect had to register under her given name Thomas Adrian . . .
