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Carmen Vázquez, the founding director of the Womens Building in San Francisco and a longtime activist for the LGBTQ community and social justice, died January 27 in New York City. She was 72. The cause was complications of COVID-19, according to the Woodhull Freedom Foundation, where Ms. Vázquez had been a board co-chair. According to a statement on the foundations website, Ms. Vázquez, a butch lesbian, was the founding director of the Womens Building in San Francisco, helped found the Lave...

January 29, 2021 11:00 PMLegal - By BROOKLYN, N.Y.— Carmen Vàsquez, who spent much of her adult life working to gain full rights for sexual minorities, died this past Wednesday, January 27, at her home of COVID-related illness. She was 72 years old. The Puerto Rican-born Vàsquez, oldest of seven children, was raised in Harlem and attended City University of New York (CCNY), where she earned a Bachelors degree in English and a Masters in Education before moving to San Francisco in 1974, whe...

Carmen Vázquez, the founding director of the Womens Building in San Francisco and a longtime activist for the LGBTQ community and social justice, died January 27 in New York City. She was 72.

Carmen Vázquez, a longtime LGBTQ activist who was born in Puerto Rico, died on Wednesday from the coronavirus. She was 72.