Nancy Cardenas

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Nancy Cardenas

Country

Mexico

Birth - Death

1934 - 1994

Occupation

Writer

Description

Journalist, playwright, stage director, and radio host. Became the first publicly declared lesbian in Mexico when she revealed her sexuality in a television interview in 1969. Pioneered the gay liberation movement in that country when, in 1974, she founded the first LGBTQ organization in the country, The Gay Liberation Front (FLH). Chaired the first gay pride parade in 1978. The Nancy Cárdenas Latin American and Mexican Lesbian Documentation and Historical Archives Center (CDAHL) is named in her honour.

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