Sandra Morán

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]

Sandra Morán Reyes
Member of the Congress of Guatemala
In office
14 January 2016 – 14 January 2020
ConstituencyGuatemala District
Personal details
Born (1960-04-29) 29 April 1960

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.[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]

References
  1. "Sandra Morán, una feminista en el Congreso". Plaza Pública, September 16, 2015.
  2. "First openly LGBTI person voted into Guatemalan congress". Latin Correspondent, November 30, 2015.
  3. "during the 1980s became involved with Guatemala’s renowned rebel band Kin Lalat.". Behind the Lines, February 2015.
  4. "for the LGBT community to have a representative.". Nobel Women's Initiative, December 9, 2016.
  5. Diputada Sandra Morán confirma que no busca su reelección
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