Brazil’s first elected openly gay federal lawmaker said Thursday he’s leaving his post and has fled Brazil, amid growing homophobic violence coinciding with the rise of far-right President Jair Bolsonaro. Jean Wyllys, who first took office in Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies in 2011, told a São Paulo newspaper he’s received a number of death threats in recent weeks and has felt unsafe since his friend and political ally Marielle Franco—an LGBTQ activist and Rio city councilmember—was assassinated last March. Two suspects in Franco’s murder are members of a criminal syndicate who have ties to President Bolsonaro’s son, Flávio Bolsonaro. President Jair Bolsonaro has a history of making racist, misogynistic and homophobic comments, and has threatened to destroy, imprison or banish his political opponents. Jean Wyllys was elected to a third term in office in October; he will be replaced in Brazil’s Congress by David Miranda, a Rio city councilmember and husband of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald.