Douglas Garcia Bispo dos Santos (born in

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on January 26, 1994) is a Brazilian former state deputy in

. He is affiliated with the

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. He was elected in 2018. He is

anti-communist Anti-communism is Political movement, political and Ideology, ideological opposition to communism. Organized anti-communism developed after the 1917 October Revolution in the Russian Empire, and it reached global dimensions during the Cold War, w ...

and an ally of conservative president

Jair Bolsonaro Jair Messias Bolsonaro (; born 21 March 1955) is a Brazilian politician and retired military officer who has been the 38th president of Brazil since 1 January 2019. He was elected in 2018 as a member of the Social Liberal Party, which he turn ...

. In the 2022 election, he obtained just over 24,000 votes and was not elected federal deputy, being without holding a public office as soon as his term ends in March 2023.

Personal life

On April 5, 2019, the day after threatening to assault a transsexual who used the same bathroom as her mother or sister, Garcia admitted to being homosexual. On the tribune of the Legislative Assembly of São Paulo (ALESP), he stated: "It does not diminish in any way the flags that I have been defending here in the Legislative Assembly against ' gender ideology'".

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Garcia, Douglas Living people 1994 births Brazilian anti-communists 21st-century Brazilian politicians Brazilian LGBT politicians Brazilian gay men Gay politicians LGBT conservatism Republicans (Brazil) politicians Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Brazil) from São Paulo