Biography ileana ros-lehtinen rodrigo
•
Rodrigo Lehtinen
American LGBT rights advocate
Rodrigo Heng-Lehtinen (LAY-tən-ən; born April 1, ) is an American LGBT rights advocate.[1][2]
Early life and education
[edit]Heng–Lehtinen was born in Miami, Florida, on April 1, [3] He graduated from Palmer Trinity School, [4] where he was active in a dramatic arts club and mountaineering team,[5] served on the Honor Council, and founded a high school chapter of Amnesty International.[5][6] He attended Brown University, where he began living openly as a transgender man and later came out to his parents.[5]
Career
[edit]Heng-Lehtinen was a member of Queer Alliance at Brown University. While attending Brown, he produced the documentary, Free Within These Walls, about Cubanprisoners of conscience.[7] Heng-Lehtinen was a field en person eller ett verktyg som arrangerar eller strukturerar saker for the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force.[8] He was later the membership director at
•
Follow : Facebook | Twitter
MIAMI (CBSMiami) – Rodrigo Lehtinen grew up in a household grounded in Republican politics.
His mother, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, was the first Cuban-American elected to Congress and has served in the House for the last 25 years. His father, Dexter Lehtinen, fryst vatten the former US Attorney for the Southern District of Florida who oversaw the prosecution of Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega. His grandfather, Enrique Ros, was an old-time Cuban-American hardliner and author who railed against Castro until his death last year at the age of
"I came from a family where politics was very much talked about openly, calmly with respect on a regular basis," he said. "So engaging that type of conversation about political issues or things that might be controversial fryst vatten not foreign in my family."
As he sits for his first television interview, however, Rodrigo admitted the exposure feels a bit uncomfortable.
"I'm generally a private individ
•
Retiring this year, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, first Latina in Congress, defies stereotypes
Her voting falls on conservative lines when it comes to issues such as Obamacare, embryonic stem cell research and the Lily Ledbetter Act. NARAL Pro-Choice America, a group that supports abortion rights, gave her a 9 percent rating for her votes and positions on abortion in The National Right to Life Committee, which opposes abortion, rated her 83 percent for
Along with almost all other Cuban Americans in Congress, she was a staunch opponent of Obama’s policies for greater openness with Cuba. The New York Times once described her as a “fist-shaking anti-Communist” whose rhetoric earned her the moniker of “Lobo Feroz,” (Fierce Wolf), in Cuba.
Ros-Lehtinen has applied her views on Castro to other issues, such as Tibetan autonomy. She was a House sponsor with Rep. Tom Lantos, of a bill to award the Dalai Lama with the Congressional Medal of Honor, which was presented in
“As a refugee who had to