Activist Mounir Baatour has become Tunisia’s first openly gay presidential candidate. Baatour is president of Association Shams, Tunisia’s leading LGBT advocacy group. He added his name to the ballot for Tunisia’s November 10 presidential election and made the announcement June 25 in a Facebook post. The 48-year-old lawyer is head of the small opposition Liberal Party. Incumbent president Beji Caid Essebsi, 92, is not seeking re-election. “After long years in the fight for minority right, I have understood that no […]
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