https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/lesbian-congresswoman-opens-path-toward-representation-guatemala-n816006

This link talks about how Guatemalan lesbian congresswoman Sandra Moran is making great progress in the representation of the LGBTQ community. Ms.Moran says she doubts she is the first member of congress to be apart of the LGBTQ community but she is definitely the first to be open about it, she decided to come out publicly while running for congress to give more representation for the community she represents. This was a big step. forward for Guatemala which is historically a very conservative Catholic country.

Some of the ways Ms.Moran is fighting to advocate, protect and represent the LGBTQ community is by fighting to strengthen Guatemalan Anti-discrimination laws so that they will include gender identity, and sexual orientation. Sandra argues that “The violence against the LGBT community because of homophobia, lesbophobia and transphobia is overwhelming.”

She has a long history of activism and fighting for equal rights for the people of Guatemala, she joined her first activist group at age 14 it was a “leftist student movement” at the time the country was in the mist of a civil war where leftist students disappeared methodically due in entirely to the Guatemalan government. So her long history of activism has not and will not end anytime soon she is making great headway in the fight for human rights and is a very brave individual unarguably.