'Everything to me': Chile's LGBTQ community relieved after Boric election win


  • World
  • Friday, 24 Dec 2021

Ian Harting, a dancer, choreographer and gay man, poses in his home, in Santiago, Chile December 21, 2021. Picture taken December 21, 2021. REUTERS/Ailen Diaz

SANTIAGO (Reuters) - For Ian Harting, a 29-year-old dancer and choreographer, voting in Chile's deeply divisive presidential election last weekend felt like a matter of life and death for him as a gay man.

The emphatic victory of progressive leftist Gabriel Boric over ultra-conservative Jose Antonio Kast left him elated.

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