Diana Sacayán

Portrait of Diana Sacayán

Diana Sacayán (born December 31, 1975 , † October 11, 2015 in Buenos Aires ) was an Argentine LGBT activist. She was committed to the legal rights and human rights of trans people in Argentina.

Life

Amancay Diana Sacayán was born on December 31, 1975 in Tucumán . Their ancestors were Diaguita . She was one of 16 siblings in a very poor family. In her early childhood, her family moved to the city of Gregorio de Laferrère in the province of Buenos Aires.

Diana Sacayán came out as a trans woman at the age of 17 . She was a member of the Communist Party until 2011, at which time she founded the non-governmental organization Movimento Antidiscriminatorio de Liberación (MAL). This organization campaigned for human rights and in particular against discrimination against LGBTI people. As President of MAL, she worked to ensure that the health institutions of the Partido La Matanza became non-discriminatory spaces and for the rights of trans people in the Argentine health system. She wrote on the MAL blog. Their activism contributed to the state and legal recognition of trans identities .

Sacayán was a member of the board of the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association .

In 2012, then Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner Sacayán presented her identity card as a woman.

Sacayán was brutally murdered in her apartment in Buenos Aires in October 2015 . One of the two perpetrators was sentenced to life imprisonment; the other perpetrator has not been identified.

Publications

• La gesta del nombre propio . 2006. ISBN 978-987-1231-11-9 .
• Cumbia, copeteo y lágrimas . 2008. ISBN 978-987-1231-79-9 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ MAL Movimiento de Liberacion antidiscriminatorio | Grupo MAL . In: grupomal.blogspot.com.ar . Retrieved November 26, 2017.
2. ^ ILGA mourns the loss of Diana Sacayán, Argentinian Trans activist | ILGA. Retrieved August 4, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Murder of trans activist Diana Sacayán | Women's Link. Accessed August 4, 2019 .