and Pachakutik movements, as a representative of lesbian populations,[2] which made her one of the first openly LGBT people to run for elected office in the country.
[3] During the work of the Constituent Assembly, she was an LGBT advisor on the preparation of the constitutional text, along with activists such as Elizabeth Vásquez and Sandra Álvarez [es].
[1] Her romantic partner, the activist Janneth Peña, whom Álvarez had met in 2005 and with whom she registered a domestic partnership in 2010, had difficulties completing the procedures to be able to cremate her.
These were due to discriminatory policies against lesbian couples, including in the removal of her body from the morgue and the signing of family authorizations at the funeral home.
[6] In August 2011, Peña made a request to the IESS for the montepío (worker's fund) and severance pension that was owed to her as the domestic partner of Álvarez.