Lifelong LGBTQ and social justice activist Carmen Vázquez passed away yesterday from complications due to Covid-19. Lambda Legal CEO Kevin Jennings issued the following statement:
“Carmen Vázquez embodied the word 'fierce.' In the twenty-plus years I was privileged to have her as a colleague and a friend, I grew to profoundly admire and completely trust her unerring moral compass and her uncompromising commitment to justice. The LGBTQ movement and the world at large are a smaller and diminished place today without her vibrant presence.”