Patria Jiménez

Patria Jiménez (born Elsa Patria Jiménez Flores in 1957 in San Luis Potosí, Mexico) is Mexican politician and head of Clóset de Sor Juana (Sister Juana's Closet). In 1997, representing the PRD. Openly lesbian, she became the first gay member of Mexico's legislature in the country's history—the first in any legislature in Latin America.[1]

Patria Jiménez at the 2006 International Conference on LGBT Human Rights

Jiménez is the longtime head of Sister Juana's Closet, a lesbian rights group named after Juana Inés de la Cruz, a Carmelite nun and renowned Mexican poet.[2] It is a United Nations accredited Non-Governmental Organization (NGO).[3]

Both as a civil rights leader and a member of the government, Jimenez is a major Latin American voice for LGBT rights and civil rights in general.[4]

Political career

Jiménez is a member of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD). In 1997 she was elected federal deputy hence she served during the LVII Legislature of the Mexican Congress. In 2000 she was elected substitute Senator but took office in the senate until 2006 when senator Demetrio Sodi left that position therefore she served as senator during the final months of the LIX Legislature.[5]

gollark: We had religion lessons at school, which were mostly just "read the wikipedia page and/or random internet resources for this religion and make a PowerPoint presentation" but one year we were doing Christianity, taught by someone who... was a Christian, which was kind of problematic.
gollark: Much better than religion lessons, which were somewhat uncool.
gollark: We did something like six philosophy lessons last school year for some reason. It was pretty neat, actually.
gollark: It's not my test, the test thing is https://lucasnorth.uk/sapply/, I just have a nice visualization for it.
gollark: It's 1.2GB so downloading it would eat up my internet uplink for 20 minutes, in any case.

References
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  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-02-20. Retrieved 2007-03-02.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. https://www.un.org/esa/gopher-data/conf/fwcw/ngo/wcwngo2.txt
  4. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2007-03-02.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2007-03-02.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)


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