Dennis deLeon (July 16, 1948 – December 14, 2009) was an American human rights lawyer, HIV/AIDS activist and Latino community leader.
He served as New York City human rights commissioner and later became president of the Latino Commission on AIDS.
He moved to Washington, D.C., when recruited as a trial attorney for the United States Department of Justice.
[1] After briefly returning to private practice, deLeon was selected as president of the Latino Commission on AIDS in September 1994 and remained in that post until a few months before his death.
It also provided structures for the mobilization of gay Latinos, immigrants, women and inmates living with AIDS.