passed away at the age of 72 from complications due to coronavirus.Vázquez also spent years in San Francisco, where she was the founding director of the Women’s Building and helped establish the Lavender Youth Recreation and Information Center.After moving back to New York in the 1990s, she became the director of public policy at the LGBT Community Center from 1994 to 2003 and helped form the New York State LGBT Health and Health Services Network.
From 2003 to 2007, Vázquez served as deputy executive director for the now-defunct Empire State Pride Agenda.More recently in her lifetime of work for the LGBTQ+ community, Vázquez co-chaired the board of directors of the Woodhull Freedom Foundation, an organization dedicated to promoting sexual.