For #LGBThistorymonth I will be posting an #lgbtq #womaninhistory every day. Today is Alexya Salvador who calls herself the “first transgender shepherd of Latin America”

Salvador made history when she held Cuba’s first ever LGBTQ friendly mass in May 2017. She and other trans pastors preached about God’s love and acceptance of the very community that is usually ostracized by religious organizations. In 2018 she was one of a record number of transgender candidates on the ballot in Brazil’s October elections under the PSOL (Socialism and Liberty Party), a far-left Brazilian political party.

She is vice president of the Brazilian Association of Homotransaffective Families (ABRAFH) and became the first trans person to adopt a child in Brazil (where in 2017 over 380 trans people were murdered)