About Juan Sebastián Romero
Lived 1978 – 2011 (aged 32–33). Juan Sebastián Romero was a Colombian politician.
Juan Sebastián Romero Leal (30 July 1978 – 28 February 2011) was a Colombian politician and LGBT activist. A member of the Alternative Democratic Pole, he was elected to the Local Administrative Board (Junta Administradora Local) of Chapinero, Bogotá. Hi is the only openly homosexual politician to have won a seat in the most recent Bogotá local elections.
Political career and activism Romero was a founding member of Polo de Rosa, an LGBT current within the Alternative Democratic Pole.
In the 2007 Bogotá local elections, he won a seat on the Chapinero Local Administrative Board with 1,060 votes. His candidacy and election drew national attention because he campaigned openly as a gay politician.
Romero died in Bogotá on 28 February 2011.
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Juan Sebastián Romero was born in 1978 in Bogotá.
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Juan Sebastián Romero died on 28 February 2011 in Bogotá.
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