Since the dawn of the 2020s, Puerto Rico’s Bad Bunny has captured the attention of the global queer world by donning drag in a music video, honoring a murdered trans woman on “The Tonight Show,” locking lips with his male backup dancer at MTV’s Video Music Awards and, most recently, kissing Gael García Bernal in the new movie “Cassandro.”
No less than Ricky Martin has called Bad Bunny, Puerto Rico’s latest hijo favorito, “an icon for the Latin queer community.” But the trap musician — who has described his views on sexuality as fluid but has previously self-identified as heterosexual — is just the latest in a long line of queer icons to hail from Puerto Rico, a pantheon including activists, an athlete, an astrologer, the highest-seated judge in the land — and, of course, Martin himself.
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