Carmen Vázquez

Carmen Vásquez

Carmen Vásquez at the 2011 Vicki Sexual Freedom Award ceremony
Born January 14, 1949
Puerto Rico
Residence Brooklyn, NY
Education City University of New York
Movement LGBT rights movement, Immigrant Rights

Carmen Vázquez (born January 14, 1949) is an activist, writer and community intellectual. Some of her work regarding liberation is published in conmoción, a Latina lesbian magazine created in part by tatiana de la tierra to build a platform for Latina lesbian conversation and visibility.[1] Currently, she is the Coordinator of the LGBT Health & Human Services Unit for the NYS AIDS Institute. She is the former Deputy Executive Director of the Empire State Pride Agenda. She was the government and public policy director of the New York City LGBT Community Services Center,[2] a founding member of the New York State LGBT Health and Human Services Network, a board member of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, a board member of the Funding Exchange's OUT Fund and a Co-Chair of Equality Federation from 2004 - 2006 She was a founder of the Women's Building in San francisco and of Causes in Common, a national coalition of LGBT Liberation and Reproductive Justice Activists. She was honored by CUNY Law School with an honorary degree in 2004 and is a donor to the Sophia Smith Archives at Smith College which also houses her oral history for the Voices of Feminism project. Her essays have been published in several anthologies. She lives in Brooklyn NY.

Bibliography

References

  1. De La Tierra, Tatiana. "Activist Latina Lesbian Publishing: esto no tiene nombre and conmoción." I am Aztldn: The Personal Essay in Chicano Studies, ed. Chon A. Noriega and Wendy Belcher (Los Angeles: UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press, 2004) 195.
  2. Ricks, Ingrid (13 April 1999), "She Said, She", The Advocate, p. 48, retrieved 24 March 2010

External links

- Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College


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