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Lambda Legal Mourns Passing of Carmen Vázquez, LGBTQ Movement Hero/ Lambda Legal Lamenta el Fallecimiento de Carmen Vázquez, heroína del movimiento LGBTQ

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January 28, 2021
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Carmen Vázquez speaking at an event. Carmen Vázquez papers, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College, Northampton, Mass. [DOI].

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.”

La activista puertorriqueña y LGBTQ por la justicia social Carmen Vázquez, falleció ayer por complicaciones a causa del Covid-19. El director ejecutivo de Lambda Legal, Kevin Jennings, emitió la siguiente declaración:

“Carmen Vázquez fue una defensora 'feroz'. En los más de veinte años que tuve el privilegio de conocerla como colega y amiga, llegué a admirar profundamente y a confiar completamente en su infalible brújula moral y su compromiso inquebrantable con la justicia. El movimiento LGBTQ y el mundo en general son un lugar más pequeño y disminuido hoy sin su vibrante presencia".