Sandra Morán Explained

Sandra Morán Reyes
Birth Date:29 April 1960
Office:Former Member of the Congress of Guatemala
Term Start:14 January 2016
Term End:14 January 2020
Constituency:Guatemala District

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.

On 21 May 2019, she confirmed that she would not run for re-election.[5]

Life

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.

She previously lived in exile in Mexico, Nicaragua, and Canada between 1981 and 1994.

A longtime LGBT and feminist activist and artist, she was an organizer of Guatemala's first lesbian group in 1995 and its first LGBT pride event in 1998.

Notes and References

  1. http://www.plazapublica.com.gt/content/sandra-moran-una-feminista-en-el-congreso "Sandra Morán, una feminista en el Congreso"
  2. http://latincorrespondent.com/2015/11/first-openly-lgbti-person-voted-into-guatemalan-congress/ "First openly LGBTI person voted into Guatemalan congress"
  3. https://btlbooks.com/authors/view/sandra-moran "during the 1980s became involved with Guatemala’s renowned rebel band Kin Lalat."
  4. http://nobelwomensinitiative.org/meet-sandra-moran-guatemala/ "for the LGBT community to have a representative."
  5. https://www.publinews.gt/gt/noticias/2019/05/21/diputada-sandra-moran-no-reeleccion.html Diputada Sandra Morán confirma que no busca su reelección