Carlos Jáuregui "In a society that educates us to shame, pride is a political response"

Carlos Jáuregui was born in La Plata on September 22, 1957 and died in Buenos Aires on August 20, 1996. He was 38 years old.

He is recognized and remembered for being the first president of the Argentine Homosexual Community (CHA) between 1984 and 1987, and for leading, in 1992, the first Gay Lesbian Pride march in Buenos Aires. In 1991 he also founded the Gays for Civil Rights Association.
He helped promote the first civil union project and the inclusion of sexual orientation in the anti-discrimination clause of the Constitution of the City of Buenos Aires.