Transgender actress and cabaret star Ana Lupez dies at 82

Transgender actress and dancer Ana Lupez died aged 82 in Mendoza, Argentina, on 14 October from heart cancer, LGBTQ Nation reports. Born in Guaymallén in 1944, she left home at 14, performed in circuses and cabarets in Rio de Janeiro and Montevideo, and later headlined at Barcelona de Noche in Spain, where she underwent gender-affirming surgery in 1986. She received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Miss Transformarte event in 2019.