SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador – Erick Ivan Ortiz keeps a beneficial lighted cigarette to their throat since he balances one cup of vodka in a single hand if you are rummaging because of their fanny package with the almost every other, in search of graphics and you can a good pin with his face on it handy over to you can followers.

But Ortiz isn’t around so you can class. He’s operating the latest venture walk as very first openly gay boy powering for political office inside the Este Salvador, a country so homophobic he fears providing their venture into streets during the daytime, and you will seems forced to exercise in the evening in the gay clubs.

It is nightly into the San Salvador and the dining tables at that gay pub shake to the flow regarding reggaeton

Civil and legislative elections could well be kept within the El Salvador towards the March 28, and you may Ortiz does not have any most of a chance for bringing chose.