Nancy Cárdenas

Nancy Cárdenas (29 May 1934 – 23 March 1994)

Education Born in Parras de la Fuente, Coahuila,

Sexuality At age 39, Cárdenas became the first publicly declared lesbian in Mexico when she revealed her sexuality on the TV show 24 horas, hosted by Jacobo Zabludovsky, during an interview about the firing of a gay employee. In the 1970s, she pioneered the gay liberation movement in Mexico, elaborating on the subject in several television interviews.

She founded, in 1974, the first gay organization in Mexico, Frente de Liberación Homosexual Mexicano (FLHM; Mexican Homosexual Liberation Front). As a feminist and sexology specialist she also held numerous conferences, seminars and national and international television interviews on the subject. On October 2, 1978, during the march in commemoration of the Tlatelolco massacre, she headed the first gay pride march in the Plaza de las Tres Culturas.

Theater El cántaro seco (The Empty Pitcher) Y la maestra bebe un poco (And the teacher drinks a bit) Los chicos de la banda de Matt Crowley (adaptation of Matt Crowley's Boys in the Band) Cuarteto (Foursome) Misterio bufo (Bouffe Mystery ) La hiedra (Ivy) La casa de muñecas de Henrik Ibsen (Henrik Ibsen's Doll House) El pozo de la soledad de Radclyffe Hall (Radclyffe Hall's Well of Loneliness) Sida.... así es la vida (AIDS .... such is life)

Poetry Cuaderno de amor y desamor (1968–1993) (Book of love and hate)