Sandra Morán Reyes | |
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Former Member of the Congress of Guatemala | |
In office 14 January 2016 – 14 January 2020 | |
Constituency | Guatemala District |
Personal details | |
Born | 29 April 1960 |
Sandra Morán Reyes (born 29 April 1960) is a Guatemalan politician, who was elected to the Congress of Guatemala in the 2015 election. [1] An out lesbian, she is noted as the first out LGBT person ever elected to the national legislature in Guatemala. [2] [3] [4] She is a member of Convergence, a new progressive party which had two other members elected to the assembly. [1]
On 21 May 2019, she confirmed that she would not run for re-election. [5]
Morán joined Guatemala’s human rights movement in high school when she was fourteen years old. She was active in music, playing in the band Kin Lalat in the 1980s. [3] [4]
She previously lived in exile in Mexico, Nicaragua, and Canada between 1981 and 1994. [1]
A longtime LGBT and feminist activist and artist, [1] [3] she was an organizer of Guatemala's first lesbian group in 1995 and its first LGBT pride event in 1998. [2] [3] [4]