Sandra Morán

Sandra Morán Reyes (born 29 April 1960) is a Guatemalan politician who served as deputy of the Congress of Guatemala from 2016 to 2020, following her electoral win in the 2015 general election.^[1] A member of the now-defunct Convergence party, she is noted as the first out LGBT person ever elected to the national legislature in Guatemala.^[1][2][3][4]

Sandra Morán Reyes
Morán in 2018
Former Member of the Congress of Guatemala
In office 14 January 2016 – 14 January 2020
Constituency	Guatemala District
Personal details
Born	(1960-04-29) 29 April 1960 (age 65)

On 21 May 2019, she confirmed that she would not run for re-election.^[5]

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.^[3][4]

She previously lived in exile in Mexico, Nicaragua, and Canada between 1981 and 1994.^[1]

A longtime LGBT and feminist activist and artist,^[1][3] she was an organizer of Guatemala's first lesbian group in 1995 and its first LGBT pride event in 1998.^[2][3][4]