List of LGBTQ politicians in Portugal
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Government ministers
| Portrait | Name | Office | Years in office | Sexual orientation/ gender identity |
Notes | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Carlos Lobo de Ávila (1860–1895) |
Minister of Public Works, Commerce and Industry | 1883–1894 | Gay | First gay government minister | [1][2] |
| Minister of Foreign Affairs | 1894–1895 | |||||
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Adolfo Mesquita Nunes (born 1977) |
Secretary of State for Tourism | 2013–2015 | Gay | Outed in 2018 | [3][4] |
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Graça Fonseca (born 1971) |
Secretary of State of Administrative Modernisation | 2015–2018 | Lesbian | Outed in 2017 | [5][6] |
| Minister of Culture | 2018–2022 | |||||
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Paulo Rangel (born 1968) |
Minister of State and Foreign Affairs | 2024–present | Gay | Outed in 2021 | [7][8] |
National parliament
| Portrait | Name | Office | Years in office | Sexual orientation/ gender identity |
Notes | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Carlos Lobo de Ávila (1860–1895) |
Member of the Cortes | 1878–1895 | Gay | First gay parliamentary member | [1][2] |
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Paulo Rangel (born 1968) |
Member of the Assembly of the Republic | 2005–2009 | Gay | First gay politician elected to the Assembly of the Republic; outed in 2021 | [7][9] |
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Miguel Vale de Almeida (born 1960) |
Member of the Assembly of the Republic | 2009–2011 | Gay | First openly gay politician elected to the Assembly of the Republic | [10][11] |
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Mariana Mortágua (born 1986) |
Member of the Assembly of the Republic | 2013–present | Lesbian | First lesbian member of the Assembly of the Republic | [12][13] |
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Adolfo Mesquita Nunes (born 1977) |
Member of the Assembly of the Republic | 2011–2013 | Gay | Outed in 2018 | [3][14] |
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Sandra Cunha (born 1972) |
Member of the Assembly of the Republic | 2015–2021 | Lesbian | [15][16] | |
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Alexandre Quintanilha (born 1945) |
Member of the Assembly of the Republic | 2015–2024 | Gay | [17][18] | |
European Parliament
| Portrait | Name | Office | Years in office | Sexual orientation/ gender identity |
Notes | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Paulo Rangel (born 1968) |
Member of the European Parliament for Portugal | 2009–2024 | Gay | First gay member of the European Parliament representing Portugal; outed in 2021 | [7][8] |
Sub-national level
Municipal councils and government
| Portrait | Name | Council | Years in office | Sexual orientation/ gender identity |
Notes | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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José de Meneses da Silveira e Castro (1826–1895) |
Civil Governor of Braga | 1870, 1877–1878, 1884–1886 | Gay or bisexual | First gay or bisexual appointed government official; outed in 1881 | [19] |
| Deputy Civil Governor of Lisbon | 1881 | |||||
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Adolfo Mesquita Nunes (born 1977) |
Member of the Lisbon City Council | 2002–2003 | Gay | Outed in 2018 | [3][20] |
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Graça Fonseca (born 1971) |
Member of the Lisbon City Council | 2009–2015 | Lesbian | Outed in 2017 | [5][21] |