Cuba's Natnal Assembly on Friday approved a sweepg update of s fay law which opens the door to allowg gay marriage, greater women's rights, and creased protectns for children, the elrly and other fay members.
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- GAY UPL CUBA MARRY UNR NEW LAW
- CUBA APPROV LAW CHANGE THAT OPENS DOOR TO GAY MARRIAGE, OTHER FAY RIGHTS
- CUBA ASSEMBLY OPENS DOOR TO GAY MARRIAGE, OTHER FAY RIGHTS
GAY UPL CUBA MARRY UNR NEW LAW
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.
CUBA APPROV LAW CHANGE THAT OPENS DOOR TO GAY MARRIAGE, OTHER FAY RIGHTS
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. Rights a untry that once sent gay men to labor mps.About 67 percent of voters, nearly 4 ln, voted favor, acrdg to the Cuban ernment.
Relatns wh Cuba.But the measure passed largely bee of the belief among many rints that “the are matters that the law should not regulate strictly,” and s time was past overdue, Profsor Coll said.The law also allows for surrogate pregnanci, clus measur agast genr vlence and enurag upl to equally share the load wh hoework.Other Lat Amerin untri have taken siar steps recent years to addrs gay rights. Rights advot.Juan Pappier and Cristian González Cabrera, rearchers at Human Rights Watch, wrote a lumn that was wrong for the Cuban ernment to engage “the polil pageantry of puttg dividual rights, cludg the right of gay and lbian upl to be ee om discrimatn, to a populary vote.”They add that the “thori are subjectg basic rights to a polil football between advot for equaly and nondiscrimatn and their opponents.”Still, the law was a stark parture om the old attus that domated the untry. The Cuban ernment had once viewed homosexualy as a dangero aberratn.
In the 1960s, Fil Castro’s revolutnary ernment helped spread a wave of homophobia on the island when he packed gay men off to labor mps, a form of punishment and ercn to nform.His niece, Mariela Castro, has been leadg the charge for L.G.B.T.Q. ”Lra Gil wh her mother, Lisset Diaz Vallejo, center, outsi the notary office after her mother married her partner, Liba Grajal, Francis / APThe was approved after heavy mpaigng by the Cuban ernment, and support by the most vol advote for gay rights on the island, Mariela Castro, the dghter of former print Rl ma Cuba the nth untry Lat Ameri — followg Chile, Costa Ri, Ecuador and Colombia — to legalize gay marriage recent electns — which no party other than the Communist is allowed — routely produce victory margs of more than 90% — as did a referendum on a major nstutnal reform 2019.
CUBA ASSEMBLY OPENS DOOR TO GAY MARRIAGE, OTHER FAY RIGHTS
” The text faced a large mpaign agast om evangelil groups that reject gay marriage.
Ismael Francis / APThe new law go further than equal marriage — which activists tried to clu the Constutn 2019 whout succs — or the abily for gay upl to adopt or e law regulat for the first time visatn rights of grandparents over grandchildren and munitn wh step parents suatns of divorc, and even ctody of mors latter when ’s necsary for the child’s also allows for separate property regimens for married upl, thoriz parents to choose the orr of their children’s surnam, extends protectns for the disabled and elrly, among other women nsired the marriage a way to also protect their children if somethg were to ever happen to, also drsed her bt drs for the ocsn, didn’t que unrstand her mother’s marriage ceremony, but walked around troducg her Lra. In some ral areas, the appeared to receive ls the untry’s pal of Havana received 70% approval, and Villa Clara — home of Liba and Lisset — received 66%, southeastern Holgu got phback “dit that we have to keep workg those areas and epen and direct tnal work, ” said Francis “Paquo” Rodriguez, a blogger and one of the first Cuban activists for the rights of the LGBTQ he still lled the new a a pri flag over her balny, Lisset Diaz Vallejo sweeps the siwalk ont of her hoe Francis / APCuban thori did not disclose how many gay upl were married the three weeks, although Rodriguez thks uld be at least dozen based on the rmatn he’s gotten om social media.