The first openly gay mayor in Mexico, Benjamin Medrano, has announced his plans to become a governor.
Medrano, 48, has applied to leave his current office as Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) Mayor of Fresnillo, Zacatecas. He hopes to become a federal deputy in the elections of June 7 and aims to become governor of the state the following year, probably a long-shot in one of in the country’s more conservative states. 
“I want to be governor, but before that I need to get great results as federal deputy” he said.
He promised that if he reached the Chamber of Deputies he would promote initiatives to defend gay rights in Mexico.
“Homosexuals should not been a seen as a vulnerable minority” he said. “We are one of the hardest working communities, and one of the groups that generates the most prosperity.”
Medrano added that he would back any equal rights proposals.