Sandra Morán Reyes (born 29 April 1960) is a

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n politician who served as deputy of the

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from 2016 to 2020, following her electoral win in the 2015 general election."Sandra Morán, una feminista en el Congreso"
''Plaza Pública'', September 16, 2015. A member of the now-defunct

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party, she is noted as the first out

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person ever elected to the national legislature in Guatemala."First openly LGBTI person voted into Guatemalan congress"
''Latin Correspondent'', November 30, 2015."during the 1980s became involved with Guatemala’s renowned rebel band Kin Lalat."
''Behind the Lines'', February 2015."for the LGBT community to have a representative."
''Nobel Women's Initiative'', December 9, 2016. On 21 May 2019, she confirmed that she would not run for re-election.
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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. She previously lived in

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, and

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between 1981 and 1994. A longtime LGBT and

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activist and artist, she was an organizer of Guatemala's first lesbian group in 1995 and its first

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event in 1998.

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