The gay son of Argentina’s new president wore a rainbow flag during his father’s inauguration.
President Alberto Fernádez was sworn into office earlier this week, and his partner Fabiola Yáñez and 24-year-old son Estanislao were there when he sat in his seat at the Casa Rosada for the first time.
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Video of the shoot was posted to Instagram, and the press noticed something in Estanislao’s pocket.
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the son of the new argentina's president took the presidential family picture with the lgbt+ flag in his pocket 🥺🥺 pic.twitter.com/UKyxDgKEAc
— flor (@ryujinhobi) December 11, 2019
He spoke out later in an Instagram video: “I want to clarify that the famous handkerchief that I had, it wasn’t a handkerchief, it was a flag, totally just a flag.”
— VaLeCiTa (@VaLeCiTa81) December 11, 2019
Estanislao is a drag queen who goes by DYHZY and has a large following on social media. And it seems like his dad – the leader of a G20 country – doesn’t mind him waving the rainbow flag for the whole world to see.
