Angélica Lozano has become Colombia’s first ever openly LGBT person to be elected to the country’s Senate.
The bisexual congresswoman won a place in the upper house with 105,299 votes, as her Green Alliance party took 10 seats in the Senate.
Lozano’s partner is Senator Claudia López, who was elected to the Senate in 2014 before she came out to the public.
In a simple message on her campaign’s Facebook page, Lozano wrote: “We made it! Thank you!”
The bisexual Senator used to be on the Bogotá City Council, and was elected to the country’s House of Representatives in 2014.
She was joined in Congress by an openly gay Green Alliance representative Mauricio Toro, who will take his place in the House after receiving more than 19,045 votes.
Openly transgender women Tatiana Piñeros made history by standing for the Senate with left-wing coalition Lista de la Decencia, but fell short of victory.
Colombia legalised same-sex marriage in 2016.
The year before, the country’s highest court lifted a ban on same-sex couples adopting children.
And last year, three gay men in Colombia married each other and were legally recognised as the country’s first polyamorous family.
Actor Victor Hugo Prada and his two partners, journalist Manuel Jose Bermudez and sports instructor John Alejandro Rodriguez, signed the legal documents earlier this month.
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