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Tomás Luis Fábregas Boudín was born in A Coruña in 1958 and died on 22nd September 1994 of AIDS-related complications. He was an AIDS activist.

Graduated in Geography and History at the Universidade de Santiango, he moved to New York in 1979 to work at the UN Headquarters. Eventually he moved to San Francisco. Somewhere down the line he found out he had AIDS. At some point he joined the board of directors at the ´San Francisco AIDS Foundation´, one of the organisations which fight against the spread of the disease in the city.

In 1992 he attended the AIDS International Conference in Amsterdam on behalf of the above mentioned organisation. At that time the US Government passed a law which banned entry to HIV positive people into the country. Fábregas disclosed his HIV status publicly at the Conference and announced he was to challenge the Bush (senior) administration to detain him at the border. But the law as never applied. Upon his arrival at the San Francisco airport, he was welcomed by several AIDS activists.

The San Francisco AIDS Candlelight Vigil grants its annual ´Tomás Fábregas Awards´ to reward AIDS activists.

Furthermore, his involvement in this cause was acknowledged by UNESCO and the San Francisco City Hall.