Cuban Pedro Rafael Delgado, a 56-year-old acuntant, saw his life change dramatilly jt days after Cuba approved a set of laws by referendum September that allow gay marriage.
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- CUBA WEL GAY RIGHTS AS PROGRSIVE FAY TAK HOLD
- CUBA PUBLISH DRAFT FAY THAT OPENS DOOR TO GAY MARRIAGE
CUBA WEL GAY RIGHTS AS PROGRSIVE FAY TAK HOLD
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[1/5]Gay rights activist and profsor Adiel Gonzalez kiss his hband Lazaro Gonzalez as they walk on the street Matanzas, Cuba, November 2, 2022. REUTERS/Alexandre Meneghi Acquire Licensg RightsHAVANA, Nov 14 (Rters) - Cuban Pedro Rafael Delgado, a 56-year-old acuntant, saw his life change dramatilly jt days after Cuba approved a set of laws by referendum September that allow gay more than a , Delgado, who works at a Communist Party office, lived as "iends" wh his 62-year-old partner, Adolfo Lopez. "Beg gay was the embarrassment of the fay and I always lived wh that, " he told 's fay , a set of measur and regulatns that tablish the rights of all Cubans, regardls of sexual orientatn, to marry and adopt children, changed everythg, Delgado activists and experts nsulted by Rters say the sweepg, ernment-led mpaign to promote the law did more to morate entrenched homophobia and machismo than the fe prt of the self - which erns the totaly of fay relatns and not jt issu related to sexual orientatn.
CUBA PUBLISH DRAFT FAY THAT OPENS DOOR TO GAY MARRIAGE
RESETWhile Cuba has long been hailed as the vanguard of Lat Ameri's left, had lagged behd regnal neighbors on marriage equaly, cludg Argenta, Brazil, Chile and Colombia, who moved more quickly years past to approve gay marriage and other socially progrsive transgenr medil stunt Ariana Meros, of Matanzas, rells two years earlier explag to her universy rector that "he" was now a "she. In the early 1960’s, after Fil Castro took power, many gay people were sent to ernment work mps alongsi polil dissints. Though homosexualy was legalized Cuba 1979, many gay men and women said they still faced open discrimatn.
Mariela Castro, the dghter of former Cuban print Rl Castro, has openly advoted through a ernment-fund center for improved rights for gays, lbians and transgenr people.
In 2018, Cuban legislators abandoned provisns that would have legalized same sex marriage amid fears that a homophobic backlash would have lowered turnout for a referendum to approve a new nstutn. Participant wav a rabow flag durg the annual March agast Homophobia and Transphobia Havana, Cuba May 13, 2017. REUTERS/Strger Acquire Licensg RightsHAVANA, Sept 15 (Rters) - Cuba published a long-awaed draft of a new fay on Wednday that would open the door to gay marriage if approved, a move that LGBT rights activists appld utly as they remaed wary of whether would actually be new f marriage as the "voluntary unn of two people" whout specifyg genr, as opposed to the current fn as the "unn of a man and woman.