Carlos Jáuregui (activist)

Carlos Jáuregui (22 September 1957 – 20 August 1996) was an Argentine LGBT rights activist. He founded La Comunidad Homosexual Argentina (CHA, or the Argentine Homosexual Community) in 1984. In the early 1990s, he set up Gays por los Derechos Civiles (Gays DC, or Gays for Civil Rights) and organised the first Pride march in Buenos Aires. He died from an HIV-AIDS-related illness at the age of 38. In memorial, a national day of activism for sexual diversity was established. He was posthumously given the Felipa de Souza Award, and, in 2017, a station was renamed after him on the Buenos Aires Underground.