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. 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.
CUBA APPROV LAW CHANGE THAT OPENS DOOR TO GAY MARRIAGE, OTHER FAY 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.
CUBA ASSEMBLY OPENS DOOR TO GAY MARRIAGE, OTHER FAY RIGHTS
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.
” The text faced a large mpaign agast om evangelil groups that reject gay marriage.