India, Oct. 30 -- Embattled Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar's ex-husband, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, called himself a 'gay man' in an academic paper. This revelation comes amid allegations of Elmi being Omar's brother.

In a paper titled Out in the Field: Notes on Researching Queer Violence in Kenya, Elmi wrote, "As a gay man of the East African diaspora, my fieldwork was never neutral. It was a space shaped by tension, risk, intimacy, and vulnerability." A screenshot of the relevant excerpt from the paper has been attached below as well.

The paper notes that Elmi is from the University of Bristol. Omar's ex-husband's LinkedIn notes he's a doctoral researcher in Political Science at the School of Sociology, Politics, and International Studi...