Cubans approved gay marriage and adoptn overwhelmgly a Sunday referendum backed by the ernment that also boosted rights for women, the natnal electn missn said on Monday.
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CUBANS APPROVE GAY MARRIAGE BY LARGE MARG REFERENDUM
HAVANA, Sept 26 (Rters) - Cubans approved gay marriage and adoptn overwhelmgly a Sunday referendum backed by the ernment that also boosted rights for women, the natnal electn missn said on than 3. 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. Some of those church took advantage of the openg 2018 and 2019 to mpaign agast another plebisce which would have rewrten the nstutn a way to allow gay marriage.
Rights a untry that once sent gay men to labor 67 percent of voters, nearly 4 ln, voted favor, acrdg to the Cuban ernment. Relatns wh 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 law also allows for surrogate pregnanci, clus measur agast genr vlence and enurag upl to equally share the load wh Lat Amerin untri have taken siar steps recent years to addrs gay rights.