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Contents:
- GAY CUBA
- UNE STATN GAYIENDLY ?
- CUBA WANTS YOU TO THK IT’S A GAY PARADISE. IT’S NOT.
- GAY LIFE HAVANA - CUBA FOM
- LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR (LGBT) HEALTH CUBA: A REPORT OM THE FIELD
GAY CUBA
Sì, il erno ha penalizzato le relazni private nsensuali tra persone llo stso sso nel 1979, gay e lbiche possono servire apertamente nell'erco e i funznari hanno dichiarato illegale la discrimazne basata sull'orientamento ssuale nel 2010.
UNE STATN GAYIENDLY ?
Nonostante la sua vena nservatrice, saperne di piùCuba è sicura per i viaggi gay e lbiche, e più specifimente L'Avana è sicura per i viaggiatori gay e lbiche? Una larga fetta di cubani accetta socialmente l'omossualà, ma l'zne religsa spso off i giudizi sul matrimon e l'adozne, ntribuendo ad una mannza formale di dirti gay a Cuba. Tuttavia, di recente, nel 2019, il erno ha ncellato gli eventi pro-gay, pra la parata annuale ll'Orgogl, e sembra che ci sia un morbido rollback i dirti i gay a Cuba.
Sfortunatamente - anche se alcuni loli gay-iendly hanno aperto negli ultimi anni - non c'è una zona gay a L'Avana e la mannza di rapprentanza fa sere la domanda: L'Avana è sicura per i viaggiatori gay e lbiche?
Soggrnare appartamenti, pensni e hotel LGBTQ-iendly di proprietà e gti da persone e famiglie gay, lbiche e trans è un vantagg su molti livelli. Dato che i dirti LGBTQ a Cuba sono attualmente sotto tiro, sostenere l'enomia lole gay e lbi è un modo super per prenre posizne per l'uguaglianza e sperimentare il tuo ogl. Réalisé en 1993 par Tomás Gutierrez Alea, Fra y Cholate t le premier film à parler l’homosexualé à Cuba… et fut, surcroît, en partie fancé par l’Etat, ce qui montre une évolutn nsidérable s mentalés, puis la f s anné 80.
CUBA WANTS YOU TO THK IT’S A GAY PARADISE. IT’S NOT.
Cependant, même si ce pays ne propose pas enre beup lix gays, Santa Clara et La Havane sont ux vill qui rassemblent une large part la munté homosexuelle. Cuba is a popular LGBTQ+ travel statn thanks to s rich history and culture, unspoiled nature, and y, vibrant gay life – pecially pared to other islands the Caribbean. While the pri paras were stopped 2019, the ernment sanctned the openg of the untry’s first gay hotel, the Gran Muthu Rabow Hotel and there has been discsn of regnizg the rights of same-sex upl.
You’ll fd a visible queer scene Havana: the Vedado neighborhood, along the Malacón at Mi Cayo beach, which is popular wh gay men, and bars and clubs that reflect a more nocent, pre-Grdr time.
X Y (formerly Bar Myxto) is one of our favore Cubano gay bars and Café Cantante Mi Habana, a club near Havana’s Revolutnary Square, hosts live mic. As of 1979, beg gay is no longer a crime Cuba, although unr Article 303a of the untry’s Penal Co, “publicly manifted” homosexualy remas illegal, as do “persistently botherg others wh homosexual amoro advanc. The ernment Havana ref to regnize the ternatnal week of LGBT rights celebratns, allowg only an officially sanctned gatherg on May 17 — unr Mariela’s patronage — to mark Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia, which memorat the day the World Health Organizatn cid to remove homosexualy om s classifitn of diseas.
GAY LIFE HAVANA - CUBA FOM
“The realy for the LGBT muny Cuba is very different om that scribed by the ternatnal media, ” Ignac Estrada, a 33-year-old gay man om Santa Clara, tells me. He and other LGBT Cubans are “very unhappy about the awards and regnn” she has received abroad, sistg, “It do not reflect the feelgs of the gay muny on the island. In a 2010 terview wh the Mexin newspaper La Jornada, he placed the blame for Cuba’s historil persecutn of gays squarely on his own shoulrs, llg “a great jtice.
In May 2012, Mariela was qutned by a Cuban-Amerin dience member about her uncle Fil’s “ncentratn mps for gay men” durg an appearance at the New York Public Library.
LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR (LGBT) HEALTH CUBA: A REPORT OM THE FIELD
Th, the qutn this paper seeks to answer is: How has the Cuban ernment’s treatment of homosexuals durg the Revolutn veloped toward the ernment’s treatment of gay Cubans the prent? The First Perd ends 1979 bee this year marks a shift the ernment’s treatment of gays through the ernment’s extensn of rights to LGBTQ+ dividuals by removg the regnn of homosexualy as a crime om the Cuban penal . Before this paper begs wh an analysis of each perd, ntextual rmatn on the affairs of the gay muny the Cuban pre-Revolutnary era is provid.
Os, a Lat Amerin lerature historian, c the work of Simo, a playwright and novelist, and Garcia Ramos, a poet, to argue that pre-revolutnary arts and lerature Cuba exhibed “openly or discreetly homosexual liftyl” (2002, 92). Os also c the work of Simo and Garcia Ramos to claim that “an evint homosexual sensibily” was felt Cuban mic the 1950s and 1960s (2002, 92). A different perspective on the pre-revolutnary life of Cuban gays is ntend by Arguell, a former profsor of Xinx/Latx Studi, and Rich, a scholar and cric of Lat Amerin and queer films.
Arguell and Rich claim that the pre-revolutnary life of Cuban gays was characterized by harsh reprsn, risn, and vlence wh the fay and tradnal workplac (1984, 686-687). Also, Arguell and Rich expla that homosexual sire the pre-revolutnary era was directed toward illegal and profable markets, such as the “Havana unrworld, ” where homoerotic experienc were bought and sold (1984, 686).