Carmen Vázquez, a co-founder of the Women's 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 foundation's website, Ms. Vázquez was the founding director of the Women's Building in San Francisco, helped found the Lavender Youth Recreation and Information Center in San Francisco, and the LGBT Health & Human Services Network, a coalition of over 55 organizations and groups in New York advocating for LGBTQ health and human services. "Her work integrated a focus on racial and economic justice