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Gloria Casarez, 42; head of Phila. Office of LGBT Affairs

Gloria Casarez, 42, the city's first director of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender affairs, died Sunday after a five-year battle with metastatic breast cancer.

Mayor Michael Nutter (cq-right) walks to press conference with Gloria A. Casarez (cq-left) where he announced her appointment Apr. 28, 2008 as his liaison to the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Communities. (Tom Gralish / Inquirer) PGAY29aTG 102155 Mon 4/28/2008 Location: City Hall. Story: PGAY29 () / Mayor Nutter names a liaison to the gay and lesbian community and announced that she would work out of the mayor's office. Casarez has been the executive director of the Gay and Lesbian Latino AIDS Education Initiative since 1999, and prior to that that she was the program coordinator at the LGBT Center of the University of Pennsylvania.
Mayor Michael Nutter (cq-right) walks to press conference with Gloria A. Casarez (cq-left) where he announced her appointment Apr. 28, 2008 as his liaison to the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Communities. (Tom Gralish / Inquirer) PGAY29aTG 102155 Mon 4/28/2008 Location: City Hall. Story: PGAY29 () / Mayor Nutter names a liaison to the gay and lesbian community and announced that she would work out of the mayor's office. Casarez has been the executive director of the Gay and Lesbian Latino AIDS Education Initiative since 1999, and prior to that that she was the program coordinator at the LGBT Center of the University of Pennsylvania.Read moreINQUIRER
    by Bob Fernandez, Inquirer Staff Writer
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