Carlos Jáuregui (activist)

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Carlos Jáuregui
Born(1957-09-22)22 September 1957
La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Died20 August 1996(1996-08-20) (aged 38)
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Occupations
  • Activist
  • author
Known forLa Comunidad Homosexual Argentina (CHA), Gays por los Derechos Civiles (Gays DC)
RelativesRoberto Jáuregui

Carlos Jáuregui (22 September 1957 – 20 August 1996) was an Argentine

Felipa de Souza Award, and, in 2017, a station was renamed after him on the Buenos Aires Underground
.

Early life

Carlos Jáuregui was born in La Plata on 22 September 1957.[1] After attending university, he studied as a postgraduate in Paris and then lived in New York City. When he returned to Argentina in 1982, he was not yet an activist.[2] The National Reorganization Process, the military dictatorship that had ruled Argentina since 1976, collapsed in 1983 and the following year Jáuregui founded La Comunidad Homosexual Argentina (CHA, or the Argentine Homosexual Community).[3]

Career

CHA became an important group campaigning for gay rights in Argentina and is internationally recognised as a force in creating the strong LGBT rights in Argentina.[4][5][6] By the end of the 1990s it was giving legal assistance, remembering AIDS deaths and campaigning for HIV/AIDS awareness and against LGBT discrimination.[7] Jáuregui published La homosexualidad en la Argentina (Homosexuality and Argentina) in 1987.[8] It recounted his experiences as an activist in Argentina and the foundation of CHA.[2] Jáuregui then set up Gays por los Derechos Civiles (Gays DC, or Gays for Civil Rights) in 1991, which later became Gays and Lesbians for Civil Rights.

Pride march in Buenos Aires.[3][5] The first march drew 300 people; by the late 2010s it was drawing over 100,000 people.[6]

Death and legacy

Carlos Jáuregui died at the age of 38 as a result of an

HIV-AIDS-related illness on 20 August 1996.[1][11] His partner Pablo Azcona and his brother Roberto Jáuregui had each previously died from AIDS related illnesses, in 1988 and 1994 respectively.[5][12] Soon after his death, the Buenos Aires City Legislature voted to add a clause that punishes acts of sexual discrimination to the city's constitution.[5]

A square was named after him in Buenos Aires, and an annual day of activism for sexual diversity (el Día del Activismo por la diversidad sexual) was launched.

LGBT activist.[4]

Mabel Bellucci wrote Orgullo – Carlos Jáuregui, una biografía política (Pride – Carlos Jáuregui, a political biography), which was published in 2010.[15] A film about Jáuregui's life was made in 2016, titled Carlos Jáuregui: The Unforgettable Fag.[10][16]

References

  1. ^ a b "Carlos Jáuregui: Vida y activismo". Revista Furias (in Spanish). 20 August 2019. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
  2. ^
    ISBN 978-0-19-046972-6
    . Retrieved 10 August 2020.
  3. ^ a b Iwanek, Natalia (9 March 2020). "Carlos Jáuregui: Profiling a Legendary Argentinian Queer Activist". Passion Passport. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
  4. ^ a b c Necati, Yas (9 August 2018). "Argentina, with its first-class LGBTQ+ rights and its failure to legalise abortion, proves an uncomfortable theory about progress". The Independent. Archived from the original on 18 March 2019. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
  5. ^ a b c d Darling, Laura. "Carlos Jáuregui". Making Queer History. Archived from the original on 6 April 2019. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
  6. ^ a b Lemus, Karen Michelle. "Buenos Aires gears up for the huge celebration of LGBT culture". Buenos Aires Times. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
  7. ISBN 978-1-134-78851-4
    . Retrieved 10 August 2020.
  8. ISBN 9789509578067
    .
  9. ^
    ISBN 978-0-415-93527-2
    . Retrieved 10 August 2020.
  10. ^ a b Walker-Dack, Roger. "Film Review: "Carlos Jáuregui : The Unforgettable Fag"". We The People. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
  11. ^ a b c Jackman, Josh (27 March 2017). "The first underground station to be named after an LGBT activist looks absolutely beautiful". PinkNews. Archived from the original on 14 February 2020. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
  12. ^ Bellucci, Mabel (4 December 2010). "El camino de un luchador [The way of a fighter]". La Nacion (in Spanish). Retrieved 10 August 2020.
  13. ^ Redacción (20 August 2019). "¿Por qué se celebra el Día del Activismo por la diversidad sexual en Argentina?". Telesol Diario (in Spanish). Retrieved 10 August 2020.
  14. ^ "Awards". OutRight Action International. 19 October 2016. Archived from the original on 13 July 2020. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
  15. ^ "Orgullo. Carlos Jáuregui, una Biografía Política de Mabel Bellucci [Pride – Carlos Jáuregui, a political biography by Mabel Bellucci". hemisphericinstitute.org. Archived from the original on 14 July 2020. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
  16. ^ "QAFF18: Carlos Jauregui". 'Queer' Asia. 8 May 2018. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
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