Thirty-one-year-old Miguel Galan will become Mexico’s first out mayoral candidate, after being selected by the Mexican Social Democratic Party to run for mayor of the city of Guadalajara.

Guadalajara, which has more than 3 million residents, will hold its election on July 5, according to the Latin American Herald Tribune.

The paper reports:

The NotieSe news agency, which specializes in reporting on sexual diversity, said that there had never been in Mexico other openly homosexual candidates seeking to win a mayorship, but there have been both state and federal lawmakers of that sexual orientation.

Among those are Patria Jiménez in 1997, David Sánchez Camacho and Enoe Uranga, all of the leftist Party of the Democratic Revolution.

Uranga in 2001 pushed in the capital the Cohabitation Societies law allowing same-sex unions. It did not pass then but was ultimately approved in 2007.

Recently, in an interview with Efe, Galán said that what he wants is for people to dilute in their own minds “this gay part of the candidate and for us to finally move to (thinking about) how the specific proposals to change the city’s dynamic are.”

“Proposals have to be made, beyond what the candidate’s (bedroom activities) are,” he said.