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París Galán
Carlos Felipe Parra Heredia (born 5 February 1968), known professionally as París Galán, is a Bolivian drag queen, LGBT rights in Bolivia, LGBT rights activist, and politician. A member of La Familia Galán, a collective of LGBT Cross-dressing, drag performers, Parra is the country's best-known drag queen. He made history as the List of the first openly LGBT holders of political offices#Bolivia, first-ever openly transgender individual to win elective office in Bolivia after being elected to the Politics of Bolivia#Local government, La Paz Departmental Legislative Assembly in 2015. To date, he is one of just two Queer, queer people and the second gay man in Bolivia to have held political office as a lawmaker, after . Born and raised in Oruro, Parra later studied linguistics in Paris. He settled in La Paz, where he became a popular fixture of the underground Gay bar, LGBT nightclub scene. Together with other queer artists, he performed drag shows as part of La Familia Galán, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parra
Parra (Hebrew language, Hebrew: ''גפן'') is a Spanish, Portuguese, and also Jewish surname, meaning grapevine or Trellis (architecture), trellis, for example, a pergola. It is taken from the word meaning latticework and the vines raised on it. In Hebrew context the surname is used for Jewish people whose ancestors were wine makers as "Parra" (גפן "Geffen") is the Hebrew word in Spanish for vitis. Etymology and history Among Sephardi Jews, the surname is a Toponymic surname, toponymic from the town of La Parra, La Parra, Badajoz in Spain, where there was a large Spanish Jews, Jewish community before their expulsion from the Crowns of Crown of Castile, Castile and Crown of Aragon, Aragon by the Alhambra Decree in 1492. Many descendants with the surname, some of them ''converso'', went into exile in Portugal and the Netherlands, especially in Sephardic Jews in the Netherlands, Amsterdam. In Spain, numerous conversions took place, which is why the surname appears on the lists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |